Kurt Sluizer (April 26, 1911 – November 14, 1988)
was a Dutch-born American artist.
Biography
Sluizer was born on April 26, 1911, in Amsterdam. He attended the
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
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 supports ...
(State Academy of Fine Arts).
In 1936, he and his wife Esther fled Europe and subsequent
holocaust.
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
Bolton Coit Brown (November 27, 1864 – September 15, 1936) was an American painter, lithographer, and mountaineer. He was one of the original founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock, NY, part of what is now referred to as the Woodstock A ...
.
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.
Sluizer's work was included in 1944
Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the
National Serigraph Society.
Sluizer died in 1988 in Zena, New York.
His work is in the collection of the
Georgia Museum of Art,
the
Springville Museum of Art
The Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah, United States is the oldest museum for the visual fine arts in Utah. In 1986, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of 2012, the museum's director is Rita Wrig ...
,
and the
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. .
References
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1911 births
1988 deaths
Artists from Amsterdam
American male artists