Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters, or Sluyters (17 December 1881 in

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– 8 May 1957 in

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) was a Dutch

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and co-founder of the Moderne Kunstkring. Sluijters (in English often spelled "Sluyters") was a leading pioneer of various

Post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...

movements in the Netherlands. He experimented with several styles, including

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and

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, finally settling on a colorful

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. His paintings feature nude studies, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the

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Legacy

A number of streets are named after him in the Netherlands, including one in the neighborhood of streets named after 19th and 20th century Dutch painters in Overtoomse Veld-Noord, Amsterdam.

Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Jan Sluyters are: * Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands * Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands *

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

, Rotterdam, The Netherlands * Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands * Nederlands Steendrukmuseum, Valkenswaard, The Netherlands *

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museumplein, Museum Square in the stadsdeel, borough of Amsterdam-Zuid, Amsterdam South, ...

, The Netherlands * Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands * Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, The Netherlands *

Van Abbemuseum The Van Abbemuseum () in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe. The museum’s collection includes key works and archives by Joseph Beuys, Marc Chagall, René Daniëls, Marlene Dumas, Shee ...

, Eindhoven, The Netherlands *

Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened o ...

, Amsterdam, the Netherlands *

Museum de Fundatie Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...

, Zwolle, The Netherlands

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Sluyters at Artcyclopedia
* 1881 births 1957 deaths Artists from 's-Hertogenbosch Painters from North Brabant Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Art competitors at the 1928 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch male artists Alumni of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten {{Netherlands-painter-stub