Frans Koppelaar
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Frans Thomas Koppelaar (April 23, 1943), Dutch painter, was born at The Hague. From 1963 - 1969 he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968.
His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists.
Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 90s in a reaction to the pared-down conceptual art and the too pompous art-theories of that period. Through the years his style evolved into a simpler, straightforward approach. By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.
Koppelaar is also known as a portraitist.
oil on canvas
Congenials
Contemporary painters who are working in a similar way or with similar themes are:- Jan Zwaan - Netherlands
- Henk Helmantel - Netherlands
- Peter Smit - Netherlands
- Aldo Balding - France
- Adolfo Ramón - Spain
- Derek Buckner - USA
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