Jan Sierhuis - Screen printing, Flamenco - Sold

Jan Sierhuis (Amsterdam, December 21, 1928) is a Dutch painter. Biography Sierhuis grew up during the years of the depression. His father died when he was two. In his early childhood he already sculpted and drew and on his ninth birthday he received a painting set. As a boy he often wandered through Amsterdam. He grew up with cityscapes such as those of Israëls and Breitner. Although Sierhuis has traveled all over the world, he has always considered himself an Amsterdammer. He attended trade school to become a house painter, which gave him a lot of knowledge of materials. Together with Appel, Corneille and Lucebert, he was at the center of post-war developments in art. In 1945 he was admitted to the evening course at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, which he left after a conflict. He was involved with the Experimentals in 1947 and with the CoBrA group in 1948. However, he was too young to join it. Jan Sierhuis taught at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem in 1968 and was a supervisor at Psychopolis, the Vrije Academie in The Hague, from 1970 to 1979. In 1983 Sierhuis became a teacher at the Rietveld Academy and in 1984 at the Rijksacademie, an institute for practical studies, both in Amsterdam. Sierhuis received the Royal Subsidy for Painting and the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze portrait prize for his work. In 1987 he was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize. He also received an honorable mention at the Prix de Rome. In 2002 he became an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.