Frans Koppelaar

Frans Thomas Koppelaar (born April 23, 1943), is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.

Frans Koppelaar
Self portrait of Frans Koppelaar
Born
Frans Thomas Koppelaar

(1943-04-23) April 23, 1943
The Hague, Reichskommissariat Niederlande
NationalityDutch
Known forPainting, Landscape art

From 1963 to 1969, he attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague. He moved to Amsterdam in 1968.[1]

His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists.[2]

Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 1990s in a reaction to the pared-down conceptual art and the too pompous art-theories of that period. Through the years his style evolved into a simpler, straightforward approach.[3] By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.

Koppelaar is also known as a portraitist.[1]

Backlight Langestraat (1993)
oil on canvas

Bibliography
  • Brunt, Ineke & Eisema, Joan (2004), "Gegrepen door het moment - Amsterdam in olieverf" ("Grasped by the moment - Amsterdam in oils"), Stichting de Heeren Keyser ISBN 90-808649-3-5
  • "Amsterdam Urban Landscapes from the Meentwijck Collection" (2003), Auction House Christie's, Amsterdam
  • Denninger, Carole (2008), "Amsterdam 365 Stadsgezichten", THOTH, Bussum NL ISBN 978-90-6868-490-2

References
  1. "Netherlands Institute For Art History" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2007-11-02.
  2. Brunt, Ineke; Joan Eisema (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 5. ISBN 90-808649-3-5.
  3. Pouw, Lex (2004). Gegrepen door het moment, Amsterdam in olieverf. Amsterdam: Stichting de Heeren Keyser. p. 3. ISBN 90-808649-3-5.
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