Jan Goedhart (28 June 1893 – 16 September 1975) was a Dutch

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He lived and worked in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Tübingen, and spent his last 25 years in Rijswijk, near The Hague. Goedhart's work was featured in the art competitions at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

and the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...

. His work was also included in the 1939 exhibition and sale '' Onze Kunst van Heden'' (Our Art of Today) at the

Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the S ...

in Amsterdam.

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1893 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Art competitors at the 1948 Summer Olympics Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch male artists Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies {{Netherlands-painter-stub