Author: BROMMER, BEA,
Title: Johannes ten Klooster (1873-1940). A man with two lives. [First edition].
Description: Amsterdam, KIT [Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/Royal Tropical Institute], 2000. Large square 8°. Original publ. boards. Vovertitle in bold coloured type with a large monochrome illustration at top of cover. 95pp. Many captioned coloured plates, illustrated list of monochrome woodcuts by artist with extensive descriptive text on pp. 69-85, bibliography, biographies, list of exhibitions and reviews, colophon, abbreviations, table of contents. HAKS/MARIS, page 150. English language ample illustrated scholarly survey about paintings and woodcuts by Johannes ten Klooser, in service of the Dutch East Indies Army, KNIL on Sumatra. On leave in the Netherlands he became a pupil of Willem van Konijnenburg at The Hague. After his leave he was transferred to Irian Jaya, at the time known as the dutch territory of New Guinea. His paintings and woodcuts reproduced here are the best he ever produced. A very interesting survey about this long forgotten but still important painter of New Guinea 9now Irian Jaya). Very fine copy.

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