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 (State Academy of Fine Arts). In 1936, he and his wife Esther fled Europe and subsequent

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. The couple settled in the hamlet of Zena in the town of

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. They lived in a house previously owned by the artist

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. A home movie from the late 1940s of the Sluizers in their Zena home is in the archives of the

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. Sluizer's work was included in 1944

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exhibition of the

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. Sluizer died in 1988 in Zena, New York. His work is in the collection of the

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, the Springville Museum of Art, and the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sluizer, Kurt 1911 births 1988 deaths Artists from Amsterdam American male artists