Johannes Carolus Bernardus "Jan" Sluijters

Netherlands
Netherlands
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesAmsterdam 1928
Year of Birth1881

Biography

Dutch painter and draughtsman Jan Sluijters started artistic training in ’s Hertogenbosch (1893–94), where his father was a wood-engraver. In 1894 his family moved to Amsterdam, where Jan Sluijters spent the rest of his life. After taking his art teacher’s certificate he moved to the Rijksakademie. In 1904 he won the Prix de Rome. Visiting Paris in 1906, Sluijters became fascinated by modern art.

Sluijters was influenced by the work of Neo-Impressionists, Fauvists and such painters as Toulouse-Lautrec and Kees van Dongen, which resulted in sensational and dynamically modern work and made him a pioneer of modernism in the Netherlands. Sluijter assimilated the French influences into a divisionist style, characterized by an expressive use of bright dots, lines and blocks of color.

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