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Derkzen van Angeren, Antoon [Anthonius Philippus]
(b Delft, 21 April 1878; d Bedford, Quebec, on or before 14 June 1961). Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter. After training as a delftware artist Derkzen van Angeren worked at a pottery factory in Delft until c. 1901. As a self-taught printmaker he also made his first etchings at this time. Between 1911 and 1952 he lived mostly in Rotterdam, where he worked as a teacher at the Academy of Visual Arts (1911–43). The subjects of Derkzen van Angeren’s paintings and drawings vary from townscapes to figure studies, portraits (for example Self-portrait, 1907; Rotterdam, Boymans–van Beuningen), gardens, still-lifes and landscapes. From around 1905 he concentrated increasingly on printmaking: his etchings, engravings and lithographs are remarkable for the clarity with which, in particular, the vastness of the Dutch polder and river landscape is captured, as in his series of 18 etchings of river landscapes along the Merwede, Waal and Rhine (1924).
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