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Kees de Waal a passionate artist makes paintings, color etchings, watercolors, graphics, book illustrations, linoleum and woodcuts. Destined for his father's textile company, Kees de Waal went to the Higher Textile School in Enschede after high school. During the Second World War, however, he was accepted at the Academy in Arnhem because of his strikingly expressive drawings of people, where he studied painting and graphics from 1943 to 1945.
(from the biography of Kees de Waal)