Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's rapid economic development during the 1990s. He is a member of the centre-right Isamaa party.
The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school generally made use of relatively somber colors,which is why the Hague School is sometimes called the Gray School.
Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam,the Netherlands. He served as the first President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) from 2005 to 2013.
Willem Roelofs was a Dutch painter,water-colourist,etcher,lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art,after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th century,which led to the formation of The Hague school. His landscapes,especially the early ones with their dominating cloudy skies,demure bodies of water and populated with cattle,are typical for the School of Barbizon.
Arjen Roelofs was a Dutch astronomer.
Laar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Van Laar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Roelof van Vries,was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Johannes van Laar was a Dutch chemist who is best known for the equations regarding chemical activity.
Carel Nicolaas Storm van 's Gravesande was a Dutch painter,etcher and lithographer;associated with the Hague School. He is best known for seascapes,interior portraits and still-lifes.
Paulus Roelof Cantz'laar was a Dutch naval officer and colonial governor.
The Elmina Java Museum is a museum in Elmina,Ghana,dedicated to the history of the so-called Belanda Hitam;soldiers recruited in the 19th century in the Dutch Gold Coast to serve in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. The museum is funded by the Edward A. Ulzen Memorial Foundation.
Jonkheer Roelof van Lennep was a Dutch male tennis player. He competed for the Netherlands in the tennis event at the 1908 Summer Olympics where he took part in the men's singles and men's doubles competitions.
Roelof is a given name,the Dutch cognate of Rudolph. Notable people with the name include:
Louis Josephus Maria van de Laar was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and historian.
Het Balletorkest is a Dutch symphony orchestra,based in Amsterdam,Netherlands,affiliated with Het Nationale Ballet and the Nederlands Dans Theater.
Leiden Law School is the law school,and one of the seven faculties,of Leiden University. Teaching and research in the school take place across campuses in Leiden and The Hague in the Netherlands.
Julius Huibert Terpstra is a Dutch politician,who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the years 2020–21. He is a member of the political party Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). Before being an MP,he served as duoraadslid in the Leiden municipal council and as chair of Christian Democratic Youth Appeal,CDA's youth organization.
Senna Maatoug is a Dutch civil servant and politician,who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. She is a member of the green political party GroenLinks.
