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Piet Spijker (name variants: Petrus Hendrik Spyker, Piet Spyker, Petrus Hendrik Spijker) was born on November 3, 1905 in Amsterdam and also died there on November 11, 1972. Piet followed artistic training at the Drawing School for Arts and Crafts in Amsterdam and at the Quellinus School of Arts and Crafts, also in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Willem Papenhuijzen, Kees Smout, Hendrik Adriaan van der Wal and Wim Wijnman, among others. Piet earned his living as a watercolorist, (pen)drawer, lithographer, wood engraver and teacher at the academy. As an artist he was active in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Athens, Sousse (Tunisia), Istanbul, Maastricht, but also in Italy, Switzerland and Spain. Spijker specialized as an artist in cityscapes, architecture and landscapes, but also in figure representations and abstractions. His posters were specific. Spijker was a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, of the artists' association 'De Onafhankelijken' and of the Vereeniging Sint-Lucas in Amsterdam. Mentioned in Scheen, Scharten.
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