Discover painter, draftsperson, art dealer (person) Douwe Komter

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: signeerde: D. Komter

Monogram: DK

D.K.

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, art dealer (person)

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Leeuwarden (city) 1871-04-13

Deceased: Laren (plaats, North Holland) 1957-09-13

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Komter werkte eerst twee jaar voor kunsthandel Preyer en dreef daarna achttien jaar zijn eigen kunsthandel op het Rokin te Amsterdam.

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3 hits in RKDimages as artist
2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1886 - 1957
ca. 1886-1957

Education: Kunstnijverheidsschool Quellinus (Amsterdam)

ca. 1888
Tekenakademie (Brussel)

ca. 1893
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam)

ca. 1898

Active in

Leeuwarden (stad) 1886 - 1899
tot 1899
Amsterdam (stad) 1888
ca. 1888
Brussel 1893
ca. 1893
Blaricum (plaats) 1897
vanaf 1897
Amsterdam (stad) 1900
vanaf ca. 1900
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1914
ca. 1914
Corsica (regio) 1925 - 1926
tot 1925 (Jacobs 2000); tot 1926
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1926 - 1957
Zeddam 1938
studiereis

born in

active in

died in

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
Stallaert, Joseph
Waay, Nicolaas van der

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.: landscape (genre), interior view, genre, figure study (main subject), figure, portrait, self-portrait, still life
na 1930 geheel gespecialiseerd in stillevens

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Scheen 1969-1970
Scheen 1981 , p. 280-281 (as: Komter, Douwe;*)
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (as: Komter, Douwe)
Jacobs 2000 , vol. 3 (2000), p. 501 (as: Komter, Douwe)

H.H. van Calker, 'D.Komter', in: Schilders van heden en morgen. In het Atelier van den Schilder, bezoeken bij Nederlandsche beeldende kunstenaars van dezen tijd, dl. III, Amsterdam [1941], p. 304-309
J.P. Koenraads, Laren en zijn schilders. Kunstenaars rond Hamdorff, Laren 1985, p. 59 en passim
C. Denninger-Schreuder, Schilders van Laren, Bussum 2003, p. 41 en passim
H.[M.F.Hennus], 'Tentoonstellingen, Amsterdam..., D. Komter bij Mak, Jeanne Bieruma Oosting bij Santee Landweer', Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten 12 (1935), p. 55 en passim
W.C. Feltkamp, 'Stillevens van D. Komter', Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten 17 (1940), p. 245-240
L. Heyting, De wereld in een dorp.Schilders, schrijvers en wereldverbeteraars in Laren en Blaricum 1880-1920, Amsterdam 1994, p. 146, 154,226
H. Balk, De Kunstpaus H.P.Bremmer 1871-1956, Bussum 2006, p. 340 en passim
J. de Raad, 'Nieuwe aanwinst: het archief Douwe Komter', RKD Bulletin 2008, nr. 1, p. 65-68

http://www.devalk.com/kunstenaars/komter/komter.html (juli 2007)

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