Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Free Academy of Visual Art) was an art school in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

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. It was founded in 1947 by

Livinus van de Bundt Livinus van de Bundt was a Dutch artist, who called himself Livinus. Initially a painter and graphic artist, he was the founder of an art academy and later became a pioneer of light art and video art. Biography Livinus Arie Cornelis Jan van de B ...

. The last remaining part of the school, GEMAK, closed on December 4, 2015, after a 75% cut in its funding from the city of

. The final product of the school was the publication ''Exit GEMAK: All Art is Political , Kunst = Politiek.''

Directors

* 1947–1964

* 1964–1982

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* 1982–1984 team ad interim: Wil Bouthoorn, Stan Spoorenberg, Dieter Ludwig * 1884–1988 Frans Zwartjes * 1988–2001

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* 2001–2009

Ingrid Rollema Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name) * Ingrid (record label), and artist collective * Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing projec ...

* 2009–2015

Marie Jeanne de Rooij Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in T ...

Notable Students

* Hans Citroen * Paul Citroen * Jan Cremer * Max Velthuijs * Corneel Verlaan * Co Westerik * Martin Sjardijn

References

External links

Official website
Art schools in the Netherlands Organisations based in The Hague {{art-org-stub