Jan Sierhuis - Piezo/silkscreen printing, Title: Flamenco

Jan Sierhuis (Amsterdam, December 21, 1928) is a Dutch painter. Biography Sierhuis grew up in the years of the depression. His father died when he was two. In his early youth he already sculpted and drew and on his ninth birthday he received a painting set. As a boy he often wandered through Amsterdam. He grew up with the cityscapes such as those of Israëls and Breitner. Although Sierhuis has traveled all over the world, he has always considered himself an Amsterdammer. He attended the trade school to become a house painter, through which he acquired a lot of knowledge of materials. Together with Appel, Corneille and Lucebert he was at the centre of post-war developments in art. In 1945 he was admitted to the evening course at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, which he left after a conflict. In 1947 he was involved with the Experimentelen and in 1948 with the CoBrA group. However, he was too young to become a member. Jan Sierhuis taught at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem in 1968 and was a supervisor at Psych polis, the Vrije Academie in The Hague, from 1970 to 1979. In 1983 Sierhuis became a lecturer at the Rietveld Academie and in 1984 at the Rijksacademie, institute for practical study, both in Amsterdam. Sierhuis received the Royal Subsidy for Painting, the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze portrait prize for his work. In 1987 he was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize. He also received an honourable mention at the Prix de Rome. In 2002 he was made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Edition may differ from photo.