Rein Slagmolen

Marinus "Rein" Slagmolen (7 November 1916 – 29 January 1999) was a Dutch-Australian artist and sculptor.

Early life and education Rein Slagmolen was born on 7 November 1916 in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, as the youngest son of Gijsbertus Slagmolen and Mathilda Maria Slagmolen-Jacobs. Rein had three older siblings, Cornelia Maria "Corrie" (1906-2004), Gijsbertus "Gijs" (1908-1993), and Marinus Allegondus (1909-1911).

As a young man, Slagmolen saw himself "as 'Tarzan' and looking for adventure". He spent some years in Africa before the Second World War. He enlisted in the Princess Irene Brigade in England in 1943, where he was a member of Gevechts Groep 3 (GGIII). He returned to Africa after the war.

Slagmolen studied art in Europe and Africa. By the late 1960s he was collaborating with the architects Godfrey & Spowers, Hughes, and Mewton & Lobb.

During the 1960s Slagmolen developed an artists’ colony at the former convent, Casa Maria, in Melbourne.

Slagmolen worked in bronze, aluminum, concrete, plastics, enamels as well as stained glass. Slagmolen was also among the artists exploring the possibilities of dalle de verre glasswork. Holy Eucharist Catholic Church, Chadstone, Melbourne, Victoria Qantas House, Melbourne, Victoria Artagen Building, Pitt Street, Circular Quay, Sydney Dallas Brooks Hall in East, Melbourne, Victoria R.F.G. Fogarty Brewhouse at Northern Australian Breweries, Cairns, Queensland

Personal life and death Rein emigrated to Australia with his then-wife Hilary Prudence "Prue" Reynolds Slagmolen in 1949 to establish himself as an artist and sculptor.

Rein died on 29 January 1999.