Tjerk Bottema (4 March 1882 – 1940) was a Dutch painter and editorial cartoonist.

Biography

At age 14, Bottema was sent to the Rijkskweekschool in Maastricht where he studied drawing. Later he studied at 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 ...

, where

art nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

was the dominant style. During this time Bottema also started drawing advertisements, an activity that would later make him famous. In 1909 he has his first major success with the painting “Maaiers”, one year later he won the prestigious

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 ...

. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

he visited the

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to make an illustrated report for the newspaper De Amsterdammer. After the war he settled in Paris, finding a job writing travel reports for De Notenkraker. When in 1940 the German army approached Paris Bottema decided to leave France, but died when his ship was sunk by a German

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References

External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bottema, Tjerk 1882 births 1940 deaths 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch graphic artists Dutch editorial cartoonists Dutch male painters Dutch war correspondents War correspondents of World War I Dutch civilians killed in World War II