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Frans Koppelaar | |
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 Self portrait of Frans Koppelaar | |
| Born | Frans Thomas Koppelaar April 23, 1943 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Painting, Landscape art |
Frans Thomas Koppelaar (born April 23, 1943) is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
From 1963 to 1969, he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968.[1]
His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists.[2]
Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 1990s in a reaction to the pared-down conceptual art and the too pompous art-theories of that period. Through the years his style evolved into a simpler, straightforward approach.[3] By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.
Koppelaar is also known as a portraitist.[1]
oil on canvas
- ^ a b "Netherlands Institute For Art History" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2007-11-02.
- ^ Brunt, Ineke; Joan Eisema (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 5. ISBN 90-808649-3-5.
- ^ Pouw, Lex (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 3. ISBN 90-808649-3-5.