Sluyters, Jan (1881-1957) by Scholes, Robert

Jan Sluyters (1881 – 1957) Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters, to give him his full name, was born in Den Bosch and studied art there and in Amsterdam, where he won a Rome Prize in 1904. As an artist he moved from impressionism through fauvism to cubism and abstraction, but is best known today for his impressionist and fauvist works.

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