Klaas Koster
Klaas Koster (born January 13, 1885 in Schellinkhout east of Hoorn in the province of Noord-Holland , † January 8, 1969 in Hilversum ) was a Dutch painter .
Life
Klaas Koster was the son of Dirk Koster (1855-1935) and Geertje Lakeman (1853-1924). He began his artistic training at the State Art School ( Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers ) in Amsterdam , where he was taught by Jan Visser and Willem Molkenboer from 1904 to 1906. From 1906 to 1910 he continued his studies first at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam with Pieter Dupont and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Martin von Feuerstein and Carl von Marr .
In 1920 he married the Dutch sculptor Bertha Jacoba Gottliebe barones thoe Schwartzenberg en Hohenlansberg (1891–1993) from the Schwarzenberg family , whom he had previously taught. Together they also took lessons from Henricus Petrus Bremmer in Bussum . The couple moved to Hilversum in the year of their wedding. Their son was born there in 1935.
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Klaas Koster lived and worked in Hilversum until the end of his life in 1969. His work mainly included portraits, self-portraits, cityscapes, coastal views, still lifes and landscapes. In addition to his profession as a painter, he designed his own home in Hilversum around 1920. In his work, Koster was strongly influenced by Henricus Petrus Bremmer. He primarily used oil painting , alongside pastel painting and watercolors . In Hilversum he taught art history and drawing for several years. Not least because of his marriage, he was also referred to as an “aristocrat” among painters. Klaas Koster liked to travel, especially to France, where numerous pictures were taken. In his late work from the 1950s onwards, he mainly occupied and painted portraits of ships, which were heavily based on captain pictures. Numerous paintings have survived from this late work.
Koster was a member of various artists' associations, such as the Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, the Kunstenaarsvereniging Sint Lucas in Amsterdam, the Vereeniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum and the Vereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars in Hilversum.
literature
- Pieter A. Scheen : Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars, 1750-1880. Volume 1, The Hague 1969, ISBN 90-6522-014-3 , p. 641.
- PMJ Jacobs: Beeldend Nederland: Biographical Handboek. Volume 2, Jacobs, Tilburg 1993, ISBN 90-801063-1-3 .
Web links
- Klaas Koster in the database of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie , accessed on April 17, 2019
- Photo by Klaas Koster on artindex.nl , accessed April 17, 2019
- Klaas Koster on artnet.de , accessed April 17, 2019
- Some works by Klaas Koster on arcadja.com , accessed on April 17, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaas Koster in the database of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- ↑ Klaas Koster at genealogieonline.de
- ^ Klaas Koster at Pieter Scheen & Co
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koster, Klaas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schellinkhout , North Holland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1969 |
| Place of death | Hilversum |