Johan Limpers

Johan Limpers (2 August 1915, in

Heemstede Heemstede () is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the fourth richest municipality of the Netherlands. History Heemstede formed around the Castle ''Heemstede'' that was built overlooking the ...

– 10 June 1944, in

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) was a Dutch sculptor. Limpers was a student of Jan Bronner at the

Rijksakademie The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school support ...

. His work followed the ideas of Jan Bronner and was monumental, for this he won the Dutch equivalent of the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in 1940. During the

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he was active in the resistance and took part in setting fire to the Amsterdam registration office in 1943. He was executed by a German firing squad at

. After the war he was reburied at the Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal. He was married with fellow member of the resistance and sculptor Katinka van Rood. 1915 births 1944 deaths Dutch resistance members Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners People from Heemstede Executed Dutch people People executed by Nazi Germany by firing squad Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Dutch people executed by Nazi Germany 20th-century sculptors {{Netherlands-bio-stub