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Truly beautiful and realistic drawing of a thistle by Simon Koene
Simon Jacobus Maria Joseph Koene (Poeldijk/The Hague, 30 March 1946) is a Dutch visual artist. He is a graphic artist (etcher), draftsman, painter and publicist, and is one of the most important Dutch graphic artists of the twentieth century. His most important works are perhaps: Dear Plato (1970), Groot Hollands landschap (1979), Die Goldene Zeit (1988) and a small portrait of his grandmother that he made at the age of 23. In 1966 he chose to study drawing (MO-A and B) at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where he immediately proved to be a remarkable and talented student. There he made his first etchings at the beginning of his second year of study, in which he was inspired by daily life and the major world events of his time.
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