Lodewijk Karel "Loki" Bruckman (; 14 August 1903 – 24 April 1995) was a

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. He lived and worked in the Netherlands, the

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, and

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. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.

Biography

Lodewijk Karel Bruckman was born on 14 August 1903 in

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in the

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.Bruckman, Lodewijk

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. Retrieved on 2013-08-08. He was the son of house painter Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1868–1952) and Wilhelmina Frederika Hamel (1869–1930).Bruckman, K.L.
Digitale Stamboom Den Haag, 2012. Retrieved on 2013-08-08. He had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom was his

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brother Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1903–1982).Fijnschilder Lodewijk Bruckman overleden
Leeuwarder Courant, 1995. Retrieved on 2013-08-08. Bruckman studied with his twin brother at the

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in The Hague, where he was a student of Henk Meijer. He worked first as a

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painter, later as a drawing teacher, and eventually as a fine artist.Lodewijk Bruckman (1903 - 1995)
Studio 2000. Retrieved on 2013-08-08. In 1949, Bruckman and his life partner Evert Zeeven, who was also his manager, moved to the United States. They lived in

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in the U.S. and also in

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. Bruckman had several gallery exhibitions in New York. In 1968, they returned to the Netherlands, where they lived in

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, and

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. Bruckman stopped oil painting in 1986, but continued with pencil drawing. In 1989, they moved to

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. Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half year later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91.

Painting

Bruckman painted figuratively, forest views, and other

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s with fruit, flowers, shells, eggs, feathers and towels. His style can be described as realistic,

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or magic realistic. In 1958, Frank Crotty described Bruckman's painting with the following words: Bruckman gained popularity in the United States, while he remained relatively unknown in the Netherlands. His painting ''Composition With Peaches'' won the popular vote at the

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in 1953 and he became second in 1957. He won the J. Porter Brinton Prize in 1954. The

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in New York City has a still life called ''Mobile'' (1955) by Bruckman in its collection and the

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a painting named ''Rancho Style'' (1960). In the 1980s, Bruckman donated fifteen paintings to the municipality of

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and 21 paintings, with an estimated value of 363,000

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, to the municipality of Bellingwedde. Museum de Oude Wolden in Bellingwolde in the Netherlands has a permanent exhibition with his paintings from the municipal collection of Bellingwedde.Programma
Museum de Oude Wolden. Retrieved on 2013-08-08.

References

External links

Lodewijk Bruckman
(in Dutch), website of Museum de Oude Wolden {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruckman, Lodewijk 1903 births 1995 deaths 20th-century Dutch painters Artists from The Hague Dutch male painters Dutch still life painters Dutch LGBT painters Magic realist artists 20th-century LGBT people 20th-century Dutch male artists