Gerard Pieter Adolfs [SEP] date of death
Gerard Pieter Adolfs
Gerard Pieter Adolfs (born 2 January 1897 in Semarang, Central-Java; died 1 February 1968 in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands) was a Dutch East Indies painter and architect. In the 1930s – at the height of his artistic career – the press called G.P. Adolfs the “Wizard of Light”.
Biography.
Adolfs spent his youth in Java and received at home his first artistic inspirations. His father, Gerardus Cornelis Adolfs, was an architect and a versatile amateur (painter
a prominent painter of the era. One for example is the famous Indonesian painter, Koempoel Sujatno (1912-1987). Does has also collaborate with Gerard Pieter Adolfs in his lifetime as an artist in the East Indies, they are both great friends in many ways. Together, Does and Adolfs create one of the very first impressionist movement in East Indies (who brought and applied the Amsterdam impressionist movement). This are the reasons why when compared, those works by the two artist sometimes have many similarities.
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