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. He is the brother of actor Carel Struycken. 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.