Frans Koppelaar

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Frans Koppelaar
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Self portrait of Frans Koppelaar
Born
Frans Thomas Koppelaar

(1943-04-23) April 23, 1943 (age 77)
Nationality Dutch
Known for Painting, Landscape art

Frans Thomas Koppelaar (born April 23, 1943), is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.

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From 1963 to 1969, he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968. [1]

His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists. [2]

Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 1990s 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. [3] By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.

Koppelaar is also known as a portraitist. [1]

Backlight Langestraat (1993)
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Backlight Langestraat (1993)
oil on canvas

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  1. 1 2 "Netherlands Institute For Art History" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2007-11-02.
  2. Brunt, Ineke; Joan Eisema (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 5. ISBN   90-808649-3-5.
  3. Pouw, Lex (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 3. ISBN   90-808649-3-5.