Peter Struycken Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau | |
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Born | 5 January 1939 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Education | Royal Academy of Art |
Peter Struycken (born 5 January 1939) is a Dutch artist. The painter, computer artist and sculptor won the 2012 Heineken Prize for Arts from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1984.
Struycken went to the Haagsche Lyceum and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1957 to 1962. In 1964, he became a teacher at Hogeschool voor de kunsten Arnhem. He is the brother of actor Carel Struycken.