| Kurt Sluizer | |
| Birth Date: | April 26, 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Zena, New York, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
Kurt Sluizer (April 26, 1911 – November 14, 1988)[1] was a Dutch-born American artist.
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]