Discover cartoonist, etcher, graphic artist Tjeerd Bottema

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: signeerde Tj. Bottema

Qualifications: cartoonist, etcher, graphic artist, illustrator, teacher, pen artist, plateel painter, political cartoonist, advertising designer, painter, draftsperson, wall painter
Bekende reclame-ontwerpen van Bottema zijn de oude man met bolhoed en de oude vrouw met de paraplu van de Rotterdamsche Verzekerings Maatschappij (RVS) en de haan van Sluys' Zaden. Hij werd bekend door zijn (kinder)boek-illustraties en zijn politieke tekeningen in het socialistische tijdschrift 'De Ware Jacob'.

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Langezwaag 1884-02-06

Deceased: Katwijk (municipality) 1978-03-08

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: broer van Tjerk Bottema; vader van illustratrice Hil Bottema; vader van illustratrice Johanna Bottema; gehuwd in 1911 met Cornelia van Amstel

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

met Pier Pander in Rome circa 1907; bevriend met Wim de Haas omstreeks 1905, leefde samen met Frans Hoogerwaard in Barbizon in 1908, Cornelis Jetses omstreeks 1945

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10 hits in RKDimages as artist
5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author
1 hit in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Industrieschool van de Maatschappij voor den Werkenden Stand (Amsterdam)

1903
Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus (Amsterdam)

1903-1906
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

1903-1907

Active in

Heerenveen (plaats) 1901
ca. tot 1901
Maastricht (stad) 1901
omstreeks 1901
Amsterdam (stad) 1903 - 1911
verblijfplaats van ca. 1903-1907 en 1911
Italië 1908
reis waaronder naar Rome, Napels, Pompeï
Barbizon 1909
Prix de Rome studiereis, in Barbizon samen met Frans Hoogewaard
Spanje 1909
reis
Engeland 1910
reis
Marokko 1909
reis
Frankrijk 1909
reis waaronder naar Parijs
Groot-Brittannië 1910
reis
België 1911
Amsterdam (stad) 1911
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1911 - 1919
verblijfplaats van ca. 1911-1919
Katwijk aan Zee 1919 - 1978
verblijfplaats van ca. 1919-1978

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Allebé, August
Derkinderen, Antoon
Dupont, Pieter
Laars, Tiete van der
Leeuwen, Klaas van
Sturm, George
Waay, Nicolaas van der
was in Florence leerling van Prof. Lolli, van wie hij frescoschilderen leerde
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bekker, Christiaan Frederik (jr.)
Bes, Leonard
Bottema, Johanna
Leopoldt, Johannes
Wiegman, Jan P.A.

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: peasant genre, dune landscape, genre, history (genre), caricature, landscape (genre), marine (genre), cityscape

Product: poster, children's book illustration, design for book binding, cover or dust jacket, design for book binding, cover or dust jacket (children's books), commercial (oral or performed work)

Prijzen

Prix de Rome
1907 1e prijs beeldhouwkunst; kreeg gedurende 4 jaar het jaargeld

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as author

Scheen 1969-1970 , vol. 1, p. 144 (as: Bottema, Tjeerd;*)
Wouters 1977 , p. 40, 66-67, 77-79, 98, 103-105, 110, 158-159, 161-164, 175
Scharten 1996 , p. 17
Jacobs 2000 , p. 456 (as: Bottema, T. (Tjeerd))
De Bodt/Kapelle 2003 , p. 232 (as: Bottema, Tjeerd)
Den Hartog Jager/Tuijn 2008 , p. 7 en passim

Tj. Bottema, Mijn leven, Buitenpost 1976
H. Mulder, 'De politieke spotprent tussen de beide wereldoorlogen', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 28 (1977), p. 169-208
M. van Wijk Sluyterman, Van anonieme boekversierders tot erkende kunstenaars. Twee eeuwen boekverzorging en illustraties van het Nederlandse jeugdboek, Den Haag 1982, p. 66-68 (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag)
C. Meijer, 'Tjeerd Bottema' in: Lexicon Jeugdliteratuur (juni 1984) (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag)
Bram Huijser, Nederlandse boekband-, boekomslag- en stofomslag-ontwerpers 1890-1940 (typescript, 2004)
R. van Schoonderwoerd, ‘Bottema in Katwijk’, Boekenpost 15 (2007), nr. 89 (mei/juni), p. 39-41, p. 39-41

Rijksarchief voor Noord-Holland te Haarlem, Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, dossier 290

Documentation RKD

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Archive location: archief Albert C.A. Plasschaert
Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
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Creation date: 1991-07-24; Last modified date: 2022-11-25

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