biographie de Kurt SLUIZER (1911-1988)

Birth place: Holland

Death place: Zena, NY

Addresses: Amsterdam, Holland; Woodstock, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: Federal Academy of Art, Amsterdam, 1930-36 (honors & prizes)

Exhibited: Academy of Art, Amsterdam (2 solos); The Hague (solo); Berkshire Art Festival, Pittsfield, MA, 1946 (prize); Rensselaer Art Community Federal Center, Troy, NY, 1979 (1st prize, landscape); Mid-Hudson Art Center, Poughkeepsie, 1979; Woodstock Soc. of Art; galleries in NYC and upstate NY. Awards: Kuniyoshi Fund Award, 1980.

Member: Woodstock Artists AA

Work: Woodstock AA

Comments: He escaped to the U.S. from the Nazi invasion in 1939 and settled in Woodstock a few years later. His paintings range from impressionist landscapes to circus scenes and studies of geese and horses.

Sources: info. courtesy of Peter Bissell, Cooperstown, NY; Woodstock AA