Jan Vegter
Jan Vegter (born March 29, 1927 in Voorburg , Netherlands ; † 2009 ibid) was a Dutch painter and draftsman.
Life
Jan Vegter lived in Voorburg near The Hague . From 1945 he studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague with the graphic artist and designer Willem Rozendaal (1899–1971). His father, a fabric manufacturer and wholesaler, did not agree with his son's career goal. In 1950 Jan first became a sales representative and then an office worker in his father's company. He left in 1960 to live as an artist. In 1965 he married Joke Scheurer. Until 1999 he worked as a drawing teacher. Then he devoted himself entirely to his own work. The graphic designer, illustrator and comic book artist Jaap Vegter was his younger brother.
plant
Jan Vegter became known to a wider public through his drawings entitled Meppel, Een raar Jaar (1939/40, a strange year) . They show a selection from a portfolio of drawings that he made between 1990 and 1995. The complete portfolio can be seen on the website of the Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing & Printing Culture . The drawings about his time in Meppel 1939/40 were exhibited in the Historisch Centrum of the Oud Meppel Foundation (Netherlands), in the House of the Netherlands in Münster / Westphalia and in the Villa van Delden in Ahaus. These souvenir pictures tell of the experiences of a 12-year-old boy during the stay of the Vegter family in Meppel in the east of the Netherlands in 1939, where his father was stationed as an officer. A brochure with a text by Theo de Feyter was published on the occasion of the exhibition.
literature
- Meppel, Een raar Jaar - 1939/40 , A Strange Year, Theo de Feyter, Amsterdam 2016, Tekst & Teken 9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Portrait on Westphalian News from July 27, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vegter, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voorburg , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2009 |
| Place of death | Voorburg , Netherlands |