Jan Apol

Johan Peter Hendrik Apol (born March 12, 1874 in Leiden ; died March 5, 1945 in The Hague ) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, sculptor and writer.

Life

Apol was the son of Johannes Adrianus Cornelis Apol, officer of the infantry , and Elisabeth Hendrina Landrij. He learned to draw from his uncle Louis Apol and briefly attended courses at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen (1897) and the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague (1898).

At the beginning, Apol combined his artistic activity with writing. However, his novel Phaeton en de dwaas (1901) and Bundle De Gouden Poort (1903), both with cover designs by CA Lion Cachet, were not received positively. He switched to drawing and painting, often on religious and literary subjects. Apol lived in Florence (1902–1904), Brussels and from 1912 back in The Hague. After the First World War he worked as a sculptor; he made busts and animal figures from bronze and stone. For several years he was a member of Arti et Amicitiae (1917–1923), but did not take part in exhibitions and only rarely exhibited his works outside of Arti.

Apol died shortly before his 71st birthday and was buried in the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery in The Hague.

Fonts

1901 Phaëton en de dwaas: een away tot het leven. Valkhoff, Amersfoort.
1903 De gouden poort: Radboud. Epimetheus. Het boek Jazion. CAJ van Dishoeck, Bussum.

literature

J. Kapelle, S. de Bodt: Tuin, thee en atelier. Real pair of signs Jan Kleintjes and Hedwig Kleintjes-van Osselen . Zutphen, NL 1999, p. 38.42 .

Web links

Jan Apol on genealogieonline.nl

Individual evidence

↑ rkd.nl Entry at the RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis
↑ K. Kuiper: Onze Eeuw . Jaargang 4, 1904, p. 325-327 ( dbnl.org ).
↑ JJ Heij: Vernieuwing en bezinning. Nederlandse beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid around 1885–1935 uit de collectie van het Drents Museum . Ed .: Drents Museum, Assen. Zwolle, NL 2004, p. 64-65 .

personal data
SURNAME	Apol, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Apol, Johan Peter Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter, draftsman, sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Suffer
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1945
Place of death	The hague

[1] rkd.nl Entry at the RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

[2] K. Kuiper: Onze Eeuw . Jaargang 4, 1904, p. 325-327 ( dbnl.org ).

[3] JJ Heij: Vernieuwing en bezinning. Nederlandse beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid around 1885–1935 uit de collectie van het Drents Museum . Ed .: Drents Museum, Assen. Zwolle, NL 2004, p. 64-65 .