| Frans Koppelaar | |
| Birth Name: | Frans Thomas Koppelaar |
| Birth Date: | 23 April 1943 |
| Birth Place: | The Hague, Reichskommissariat Niederlande |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Field: | Painting, Landscape art |
Frans Thomas Koppelaar (born April 23, 1943) is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
From 1963 to 1969, he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968.[1]
His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists.[2]
Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 1990s in a reaction to the pared-down conceptual art and the too pompous art-theories of that period. Through the years his style evolved into a simpler, straightforward approach.[3] By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.
Koppelaar is also known as a portraitist.