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Kurt Sluizer

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Kurt Sluizer
Born(1911-04-26)April 26, 1911
Amsterdam, Netherlands
DiedNovember 14, 1988(1988-11-14) (aged 77)
Zena, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known for
  • Painter
  • printmaker

Kurt Sluizer (April 26, 1911 – November 14, 1988)[1] was a Dutch-born American artist.

Biography

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Sluizer was born on April 26, 1911, in Amsterdam. He attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts).[2] In 1936, he and his wife Esther fled Europe and subsequent holocaust.[3] The couple settled in the hamlet of Zena in the town of Woodstock, New York. They lived in a house previously owned by the artist Bolton Brown.[4] A home movie from the late 1940s of the Sluizers in their Zena home is in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[3] Sluizer's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.[5] Sluizer died in 1988 in Zena, New York.[6]

His work is in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, [7] the Springville Museum of Art,[4] and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Kurt Sluizer". Geni.com. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  2. ^ "Kurt Sluizer". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Postwar: Barn in Woodstock, NY". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Kurt Sluizer". Springville Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  5. ^ "National Serigraph Society Exhibition | Dallas Museum of Art". Dallas Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  6. ^ "Kurt Sluizer". AskArt. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  7. ^ "Landscape with Farmer and Cows". Georgia Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  8. ^ "Kopstudie van een jonge man - Kurt Sluizer". Stedelijk (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.