Johan Cremer (; 20 April 1940 – 19 June 2024) was a Dutch author, photographer and painter. His best known work is the novel ' ("I, Jan Cremer"; 1964) and the sequel ''Ik, Jan Cremer, tweede boek'' ("I, Jan Cremer, second book"; 1966). The publication of this book created scandal in the Netherlands because of its explicit sexual contents. He was also active as photographer and painter.
In 1963 Cremer and painter Rik van Bentum made an obscure comic strip together about the
Profumo scandal, which appeared in print two years later.
Cremer died on 19 June 2024, at the age of 84.
Public collections
Among the public collections holding works by Jan Cremer are:
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Museum de Fundatie
Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...
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Zwolle
Zwolle () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the Capital city, capital of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Overijssel ...
, The Netherlands
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Boijmans van Beuningen,
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
, The Netherlands
References
Further reading
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External links
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Profileat
Digital Library for Dutch Literature
Lambiek Comiclopedia article about his life and career.Audio- and video fragments*
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1940 births
2024 deaths
Dutch male painters
Dutch contemporary artists
Dutch erotica writers
Dutch photographers
20th-century Dutch novelists
20th-century Dutch male writers
21st-century Dutch novelists
20th-century Dutch painters
21st-century Dutch painters
People from Enschede
Obscenity controversies in literature
Dutch male novelists
Dutch comics artists
Controversies in the Netherlands
Scandals in the Netherlands
20th-century Dutch male artists
Counterculture of the 1960s
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