Jo Voskuil

Johan Jacob Voskuil also Jo Voskuil (born March 26, 1897 in Breda , Kingdom of the Netherlands , † June 22, 1972 in The Hague , Netherlands) was a Dutch painter, illustrator and resistance fighter during the Second World War .

Life

Voskuil was a teacher in his hometown and was a self-taught artist. In the 1920s he moved to Bergen aan Zee and from then on devoted himself entirely to art. As a communist, he created political posters and book covers for the Nieuwe Geïllustreerde Wereldgeschiedenis (New Illustrated World History) published by Jan Romein from 1929 to 1932 . Of his posters, the poster Arbeiders leest de Tribune (Workers read the tribune) from the 1920s and the poster De Olympiade onder dictatuur (The Olympics under the dictatorship) from 1936, which he and the photographer Cas Oorthuys for an exhibition in Amsterdam created. In this exhibition, the two wanted to show the real Germany at the time of the 1936 Olympics, which were sponsored by the National Socialists .

Together with Oorthuys, Voskuil ran the advertising agency OV 20 from 1932 to 1935. He was a member of the Amsterdam artists' association De Onafhankelijken (The Independents) until it was forcibly merged with the Nederlandse Kultuurkamer , which was founded by the German occupation forces in 1941 . He then worked on the illegal paper De Vrije Kunstenaar (The Free Artist) by the sculptor and resistance fighter Gerrit van der Veen .

Voskuil married the operetta singer, actress and cabaret artist Dora Paulsen in 1938 . The marriage remained childless. Paulsen died in 1970. Voskuil married the opera singer Ruth Horna in 1972 , but died a few months later.

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• Biography (nl.)