Lambert Lourijsen; (22 November 1885 – 10 June 1950) was a Dutch cross-disciplinary artist.
Biography
Lourijsen was born as the son of Johannes Lourijsen and Cornelia Maria Petronella Boelen. His brother was the
architect
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Amsterdam
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and
Italy
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for studies. Lourijsen was an active portrait painter and draftsman and also served from 1912 onwards as a lecturer at the Ignatiuscollege in
Amsterdam
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. He married Henriëtte Straatemeier in 1914 in the village of Domburg.
Haarlem
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De Telegraaf
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'', 24 augustus 1934. He designed stained-glass windows and mosaics, and was also responsible for other parts of the interior, including carvings, candlesticks, monstrances, murals and carpets.
From 1935 onwards Lourijsen devoted himself once again to painting. He gave private tutorials to Frans Bosen and Corinne Franzén-Heslenfeld, among others. After the end of the Second World War orders from churches arrived as before. In 1949 he has his last assignment, a design for fourteen
Stations of the Cross
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Zandvoort
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. He died the following year, at the age of 64, and was buried next to the Agatha Church.