Coen van Oven explained

Coen van Oven
Birth Date:21 September 1883
Birth Place:Dordrecht, Netherlands
Death Place:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
Field:Painting

Conrad Theodor, or Coen van Oven (September 21, 1883 – May 4, 1963), was a Dutch painter.

Biography

According to the RKD he was born in Dordrecht and in 1903 he became a member of the drawing academy in Antwerp.[1] The following year he was a member of the drawing academy in Brussels.[1] In the winters he took lessons from the painter Jan Veth in Bussum.[1] In 1905 he was a pupil of Roland Larij, the chairman of the drawing academy in Dordrecht (Pictura) and in 1906 he became a pupil of the German architect Adolph Meyer in Berlin for two years.[1] van Oven's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[2]

He is known for his characteristic portraits of family members and landscapes. In 1913 he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed except for a short period in South Africa after the war where he visited Kimberley and Pretoria during the years 1947-1949.[1] He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the group called De Onafhankelijken.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/61266 Coen van Oven
  2. Web site: Onze kunst van heden, 1939 - . Beeldend BeNeLux Elektronisch (Lexicon) . 15 January 2021.