Kurt Sluizer

Kurt Sluizer (April 26, 1911 – November 14, 1988)[1] was a Dutch-born American artist.

Kurt Sluizer
Born(1911-04-26)April 26, 1911
Amsterdam, Netherlands
DiedNovember 14, 1988(1988-11-14) (aged 77)
Zena, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known for
  • Painter
  • printmaker

Biography

Sluizer was born on April 26, 1911, in Amsterdam. He attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts).[2] In 1936, he and his wife Esther fled Europe and subsequent holocaust.[3] The couple settled in the hamlet of Zena in the town of Woodstock, New York. They lived in a house previously owned by the artist Bolton Brown.[4] A home movie from the late 1940s of the Sluizers in their Zena home is in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[3] Sluizer's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society.[5] Sluizer died in 1988 in Zena, New York.[6]

His work is in the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art, [7] the Springville Museum of Art,[4] and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.[8]

References
  1. "Kurt Sluizer". Geni.com. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  2. "Kurt Sluizer". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  3. "Postwar: Barn in Woodstock, NY". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  4. "Kurt Sluizer". Springville Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  5. "National Serigraph Society Exhibition | Dallas Museum of Art". Dallas Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  6. "Kurt Sluizer". AskArt. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  7. "Landscape with Farmer and Cows". Georgia Museum of Art. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  8. "Kopstudie van een jonge man - Kurt Sluizer". Stedelijk (in Dutch). Retrieved July 10, 2022.
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