Erwin de Vries

Erwin de Vries (December 21, 1929 – January 31, 2018[1]) was a Surinamese painter and sculptor.

Erwin de Vries
Erwin de Vries
Born	12 December 1926 Paramaribo, Suriname
Died	31 January 2018(2018-01-31) (aged 88) Paramaribo, Suriname
Nationality	Suriname
Occupation	Painter, scultpor

De Vries was born in Paramaribo, and is the half-brother of Henry Lucien de Vries, who served as governor of Suriname from 1965 until 1967. De Vries studied in the Netherlands at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague and at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. De Vries's first exhibition was in 1948 in Paramaribo.[2] His work has since been displayed at the Stedelijk Museum and the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. He is the designer of the Nationaal Monument Slavernijverledenin Amsterdam. De Vries has also exhibited a great deal in Jamaica; there he became acquainted with the work of Barrington Watson, whose erotically charged paintings matched his own in tone.