Ap Sok - Linocut, Hunter with dog.

Information about the artist: Albertus Marie (Ap) Sok (Amsterdam, January 14, 1917 - Voorburg, April 29, 2004) was a Dutch graphic artist, draftsman, pen artist, lithographer, etcher and maker of woodcuts. Education: State Academy of Fine Arts (Amsterdam) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Rotterdam). Pupil of, among others, Antoon Derkzen van Angeren. Ap Sok taught at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and was the founder of the graphics department. He was a teacher of Wijnand Wansink, Laetitia de Haas, Frans de Boo, Louise Kaiser, Hans van Eck and Gea Karhof. In addition to commissioned work, he also made kakemonos, Japanese for length paintings, which are included in various national and international collections. Together with Wim Noordhoek, Enno Brokke and Jan Gregoor, he was part of the core of the Cuijkse Groep, a group of artists inspired by the Land van Cuijk. Awards: resistance prize for graphics from the Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet (1954) and the cultural prize from the municipality of Arnhem (1959). Ap Sok was a member of the artists' association De Haagse Kunstkring. Literature: Scheen 1969-1970 , vol. 2, p. 369 (as: Sok, Albertus Marie ('Ap'); Jacobs 1993.