| Nico Bakker | |
| Birth Name: | Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker |
| Birth Date: | 3 January 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Meppel, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Education: | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten |
| Style: | Realism, abstract |
Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker (3 January 1936 – 21 November 1969) was a Dutch painter. Bakker was born in Amsterdam and studied there at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. He was a pupil of Otto B. de Kat and Gé Röling. He became a teacher at the same institution in 1967 and taught Joost Barbiers.[1] [2]
Bakker worked in Amsterdam and Nieuwkoop. In 1961, he won the Prix de Rome. He worked in Switzerland for a year where he met Walter Clénin and made gouaches. He also made gouache paintings of IJmuiden, Amsterdam and later Nieuwkoop. He made a series of gouaches for a topographical atlas of Amsterdam and of the Delta Works for the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management.[3]
Bakker died in 1969 in the hospital of Meppel, as a result of a car crash. He had a wife and four children.