Johan Hendrik Doeleman (5 March 1848 – 10 May 1913) was a Dutch

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, draughtsman,

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and

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Biography

Rolde in Drenthe door Johan Hendrik Doeleman

Doeleman was born on 5 March 1848 in

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, Netherlands. He married Josina Christina Cornelia Wierikx on 29 October 1874 in Rotterdam. He died on 10 May 1913 in

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, Netherlands.

Career

Doeleman studied at the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen in Rotterdam in 1877. In the beginning he lived and worked near

Haastrecht Haastrecht is a small city on the Hollandse IJssel river in the Netherlands, Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard, and lies about 5 km east of Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. In 2001, the city of Ha ...

in the Netherlands but in 1899 he moved to

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. He painted mainly

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s and woodland. Occasionally he worked together with the

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painters such as

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and then produced almost identical works of art, for instance ducks. Doeleman produced oils and watercolours. He was also admired as an impressionist. He was granted the membership of

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, the artist's club in

. In 1902 he was given an honorary membership of the Academy in Rotterdam. The Valkhof Museum in

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, the Zeeuws Museum in

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and the Historic Museum in

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exhibit his work. Leo Oosthout was one of his pupils. Exhibitions of his works were held in The Hague and Amsterdam between 1872 and 1903.

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Johan Hendrik Doeleman (1848-1913)
1848 births 1913 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters 20th-century Dutch painters Painters from Rotterdam Dutch landscape painters Dutch male painters Dutch marine artists 19th-century Dutch male artists 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub