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Gerard Pieter Adolfs

Gerard Pieter Adolfs (1898 - 1968) was active/lived in Netherlands.  Gerard Adolfs is known for Abstract figure scenes of Java, Bali, Japan, North Afriaca, markets.

Gerard Pieter Adolfs (born 2 January 1897 in Semarang, Central-Java; died 1 February 1968 in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands) was a Dutch East Indies painter and architect. In the 1930s – at the height of his artistic career – the press called G.P. Adolfs the "Wizard of Light".
Biography
Vogelkoopers (1947)
Adolfs spent his youth in Java and received at home his first artistic inspirations. His father, Gerardus Cornelis Adolfs, was an architect and a versatile amateur (painter, photographer, piano and violin player as well as a pole vaulter). Adolfs studied architecture in Amsterdam. After graduating, he was drawn back to Java, where he designed houses in Yogyakarta, Surakarta and Surabaya. But soon he swapped the drawing pen for the dry-point, pencil and brush and from then on dedicated his whole life to painting.
He was already well known as a talented advertising illustrator, when in 1924 he was fir   ...  [Displaying 929 of 6077 characters.]  Artist bio

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