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Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker (3 January 1936 – 21 November 1969) was a Dutch painter.

Biography

Bakker was born in Amsterdam and studied there at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. He was a pupil of Otto B. de Kat and Gé Röling. He became a teacher at the same institution in 1967 and taught Joost Barbiers.

Bakker worked in Amsterdam and Nieuwkoop. In 1961, he won the Prix de Rome. He worked in Switzerland for a year where he met Walter Clénin and made gouaches. He also made gouache paintings of IJmuiden, Amsterdam and later Nieuwkoop. He made a series of gouaches for a topographical atlas of Amsterdam and of the Delta Works for the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management.

Bakker died in 1969 in the hospital of Meppel, as a result of a car crash. He had a wife and four children.

References

1. ^ "Nico Bakker (1936-1969)" (in Dutch). Netherlands Institute for Art History. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
2. ^ "Biografie". www.anjbakker.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2020.
3. ^ "Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker". www.artindex.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2020.

External links

• www.rijksmuseum.nl (in Dutch), works of Bakker in the collection of the Rijksmuseum
• beeldbank.amsterdam.nl (in Dutch), works of Bakker in the Amsterdam City Archives

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