| Eduard Hellendoorn | |
| Other Names: | Ward Hellendoorn |
| Birth Name: | Eduard Carel Frederik Hellendoorn |
| Birth Date: | 29 November 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Waalsdorpervlakte, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Field: | Painting, Dutch resistance fighter |
Eduard Carel Frederik Hellendoorn (29 November 1912 – 13 March 1941) was a painter and Dutch resistance fighter.
Hellendoorn was born on 29 November 1912 in Amsterdam. He studied the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Den Haag) (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague).[1] In 1931 Hellendoorn married Johanna Maria Drayton Lee with whom he had three children. The couple divorced in 1939.[2] Hellendoorn's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[3]
In 1940 Hellendoorn joined the communist artists' resistance. In 1941 he took part in the Februaristaking February strike, a protest against the persecution of Dutch Jews. He was subsequently arrested and imprisoned in the in Scheveningen.[2]
Hellendoorn was executed on 13 March 1941 at Waalsdorpervlakte.[1]