About Jan Wiegers
Lived 1893 – 1959 (aged 66). Jan Wiegers was a Dutch painter, sculptor, university teacher, textile artist, production designer and artist.
Jan Wiegers (Kommerzijl, 31 July 1893 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1959) was a Dutch expressionist painter.Wiegers was educated as a sculptor at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, but he also studied painting at the Academies of Rotterdam under A. H. R. Van Maasdijk and The Hague under Frederik Jansen.
Having left the academies he produced paintings, sculptures, wood-carvings and furniture for churches throughout Germany and Switzerland. In 1917 he became a member of the group of artists called De Ploeg (the plough), Wiegers' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Wiegers died 30 November 1959 in Amsterdam.
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Who was Jan Wiegers?
Dutch painter and sculptor (1893–1959)
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Jan Wiegers was born on 31 July 1893 in Kommerzijl.
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Jan Wiegers died on 30 November 1959 in Amsterdam.
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Jan Wiegers was a painter, sculptor, university teacher, textile artist, production designer and artist.
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Jan Wiegers was Dutch.
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