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Frederick Engel (Fre) Jeltsema (
Uithuizen Uithuizen () is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland. It had a population of 4,885 in January 2017. The Uithuizen railway station is located on the Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway. Hist ...
, 4 October 1879 -
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, 16 February 1971) was a
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painter and sculptor. Because of a medical uncertainty at birth, Jeltsema was registered as a girl in the municipality's population registry. This was administratively corrected in 1906. In 1892–1896 Jeltsema followed a course at the Minerva Academy in
Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...
. He then followed an initial training for drawing teacher, but opted for training as a sculptor at the
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in Amsterdam (1899–1902). In 1902 he won the Dutch Prix de Rome.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeltsema, Frederik Engel 1879 births 1971 deaths Dutch male sculptors People from Eemsmond Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch sculptors 20th-century Dutch male artists