Coen van Oven

Conrad Theodor, or Coen van Oven (September 21, 1883 – May 4, 1963), was a Dutch painter.

Coen van Oven
Born(1883-09-21)21 September 1883
Dordrecht, Netherlands
Died4 May 1963(1963-05-04) (aged 63)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Known forPainting

Biography

According to the RKD he was born in Dordrecht and in 1903 he became a member of the drawing academy in Antwerp.[1] The following year he was a member of the drawing academy in Brussels.[1] In the winters he took lessons from the painter Jan Veth in Bussum.[1] In 1905 he was a pupil of Roland Larij, the chairman of the drawing academy in Dordrecht (Pictura) and in 1906 he became a pupil of the German architect Adolph Meyer in Berlin for two years.[1] van Oven's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.[2]

He is known for his characteristic portraits of family members and landscapes. In 1913 he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed except for a short period in South Africa after the war where he visited Kimberley and Pretoria during the years 1947-1949.[1] He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the group called De Onafhankelijken.[1]

References
  1. Coen van Oven in the RKD
  2. "Onze kunst van heden, 1939 -". Beeldend BeNeLux Elektronisch (Lexicon). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  • Exhibition catalog Coen van Oven, schilder 1883-1963, by Mariek Eggenkamp-Rotteveel Mansveld (editor), Amsterdam, 1998
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