Jan Voerman (25 January 1857 – 25 March 1941), also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a

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Personal life

Voerman was born in Kampen and died in

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. Voerman studied at the

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(

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: State Academy of Fine Arts) in

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and the

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp () is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Don Juan of ...

under

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. He admired the work of his contemporary

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. Around 1900, Voerman painted the clouds above the

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. In Hattem, many of his works can be seen in the Voerman Museum Hattem ( ''nl''). He married Anna Henriette Gezina

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, daughter of Ericus Gerhardus Verkade–founder of the

company in

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–and Eduarda Thalia Koning, on 1 October 1889 in Amsterdam. Verkade was the sister of Jan Verkade, who at the end of the 1880s was Voerman's

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. Voerman and Verkade had two sons, Jan Voerman Jr. (1890–1976) and Tijs Voerman (1891–1970), who both also became

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Work

Work by Voerman can be found in the collections of the

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, the

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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, the Voerman Museum Hattem, the

Drents Museum The Drents Museum () is an art and history museum in Assen, Drenthe, the Netherlands. Opened in 1854, it has a collection of prehistoric artifacts, applied art and visual art, as well as temporary exhibitions. In 2023, it had 179,345 visitors. ...

and the Stedelijk Museum Zutphen.

References

External links

Collection of Voerman's works in ''Collectie Nederland''
1857 births 1941 deaths Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch painters People from Kampen, Overijssel 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub