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Frans J. IJserinkhuijsen (1892-1959) was a teacher of drawing and art history in the period ca. 1920 - ca. 1960 at the Hervormd Lyceum on the Brahmsstraat in Amsterdam. His students called him 'the Polar Bear' because of his white smock. After the Second World War he opened a gallery on the Rokin with his wife Jacoba and three daughters Mies, Leny and Annie called Corona. Father Frans and also daughter Leny made etchings, landscapes and still lifes in oil paint and a large number of ex libris.
He had a predilection for church and water towers, he also drew mills, farms and landscapes as well as birds and fish. He drew frequently in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen.