Joop Vreugdenhil
Biography1904 - 1969
About the artist
After training at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (student of Henk Meijer), he worked as a graphic artist and painter in The Hague.
After several study trips to France, his work developed from figuration to expressive lyrical abstraction. In the mid-1960s his work took a drastic turn towards cool geometric abstraction.
However rigid these works from the last period of his life may seem,... Read more
After training at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (student of Henk Meijer), he worked as a graphic artist and painter in The Hague.
After several study trips to France, his work developed from figuration to expressive lyrical abstraction. In the mid-1960s his work took a drastic turn towards cool geometric abstraction.
However rigid these works from the last period of his life may seem, they were made intuitively and without calculation.
Vreugdenhil is considered part of the New Hague School. He was a member of Pulchri Studio and the Posthoorngroep. His work is in the National Collection, among others.
