Pieter "Piet" van der Hem

Netherlands
Netherlands
Games Participations3
First Olympic GamesParis 1924
Year of Birth1885

Biography

Piet van der Hem studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He lived in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and after 1946 in The Hague. He painted dancing halls, music halls and Spanish dance-houses in the style of Toulouse-Lautrec. Van der Hem also produced portraits of the Dutch Royal Family. He was also a political cartoonist and designer of advertisements and book covers. In addition to oil paintings, he produced numerous watercolors and pastels, etchings, and color lithographs. His style was in the tradition of impressionism and symbolism.

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