Kurt Sluizer
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Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | April 26, 1911
Died | November 14, 1988 Zena, New York, United States | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
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Kurt Sluizer (April 26, 1911 – November 14, 1988)[1] was a Dutch-born American artist.
Biography
[edit]Sluizer was born on April 26, 1911, in Amsterdam. He attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts).[2] In 1936, he and his wife Esther fled Europe and subsequent holocaust.[3] The couple settled in the hamlet of Zena in the town of Woodstock, New York. They lived in a house previously owned by the artist Bolton Brown.[4] A home movie from the late 1940s of the Sluizers in their Zena home is in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[3] Sluizer's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.[5] Sluizer died in 1988 in Zena, New York.[6]
His work is in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, [7] the Springville Museum of Art,[4] and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kurt Sluizer". Geni.com. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Kurt Sluizer". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ a b "Postwar: Barn in Woodstock, NY". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ a b "Kurt Sluizer". Springville Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "National Serigraph Society Exhibition | Dallas Museum of Art". Dallas Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ^ "Kurt Sluizer". AskArt. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Landscape with Farmer and Cows". Georgia Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Kopstudie van een jonge man - Kurt Sluizer". Stedelijk (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.