Discover graphic designer, etcher, lithographer Peter Alma

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: Alma, Petrus
signed with: 'Peter Alma'

Monogram: PA

P.A of PA (Fichescollectie Monogrammen MHK)

Qualifications: graphic designer, etcher, lithographer, manufacturer of woodcuts, monumental artist, wall painter, painter, designer, mosaicist
won the Albert Schweitzer Prize (Art Department) in 1966; the Silver Medal of Honor of the municipality of Amsterdam

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: Medan (Indonesia) 1886-01-18

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1969-05-23
Scharten 1996

This person/entity in other databases

1 hit in RKDcollections
14 hits in RKDimages as artist
1 hit in RKDimages as provenance
12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author
13 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Akademie van beeldende kunsten (Den Haag)

1904-1906 Den Haag; daarna Parijs
Académie Humbert (Parijs)

Active in

Den Haag (stad) 1888 - 1907
Amsterdam (stad) 1888
May 1888 registered at Hemonystraat 3 in Amsterdam population register 1874-1893.
Amsterdam (stad) 1909
tot 1909
Parijs 1910
until 1910
Parijs 1912
Signaled Boulevard Edgard-Quinet, 3 (cat. Paris Salon des Independants 1912
Parijs 1913
Signaled Rue Perceval, 16 (cat. Paris Salon des Independants 1913)
Parijs 1914
Signaled Rue du départ, 26 (cat. Paris Salon des Independants 1914)
Den Haag (stad) 1915
en Parijs; tot 1915
Laren (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1916
until 1916
Amsterdam (stad) 1916 - 1921
since 1916. Amsteldijk 92. In his family card in the Amsterdam archives 1893-1939.
Amsterdam (stad) 1921
Hobbemastraat 6. In his family card in the Amsterdam archives 1893-1939.
Moskou 1921
visit to the Communist International, in the company of, among others, Henriette Roland Holst
Charkov (Oekraïne)
study trip

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.: Jansen, Frits (1856-1928)

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.: figure, street scene, animal painting (genre), landscape (genre), cityscape, still life

Product: design for book binding, cover or dust jacket

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 1, 1953, p. 32
Scheen 1969-1970 , vol.I, p. 14 (as: Alma, Petrus ('Peter');*)
Saur 1992- , AKL 2, 1992, p. 573
Jacobs 1993 , vol. 1, p. 26-27
Scharten 1996 , p. A-2
Blotkamp et al. 1999 , p. 98-102

P. Alma, 'De herleving van de wandschildering', Prisma der kunsten 2 (1937), p. 49-51
Bram Huijser, Nederlandse boekband-, boekomslag- en stofomslag-ontwerpers 1890-1940 (typescript, 2004)
R. Koot, 'Een loterijbriefje uit 1921. Peter Alma en de hongersnood in Rusland', RKD Bulletin 2012, nr. 2, p. 96-100
M. Jooren, 'Peter Alma: een zuivere idealist', Kunstschrift 61 (2017) no. 2, p. 32-33

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Archive location: archief Leo Braat
archief Paul Citroen
Archief en bibliotheek Theo en Nelly van Doesburg
archief Simon en familie Maris
archief Lodewijk Schelfhout
archief Karel Eduard Schuurman en Everdine Schuurman-Henny
archief Sal Slijper
archief Henri P.L. Wiessing
Fichescollectie Monogrammen MHK
Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
NOA
Mondrian Edition project
The Dutch in Paris - Retour de Paris

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Creation date: 1990-10-29; Last modified date: 2020-04-02

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