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- Dirk Wiarda Amsterdam (1943-1999)
He started his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. This was followed by the Vrije Academie in The Hague and then, in 1968, the Ateliers in Amsterdam. His first exhibition took place in 1969 in Galerie 845 in Amsterdam. After that followed by group exhibitions in Museum Fodor ('The thinking hand'), a group exhibition curated by Albert Waalkens in the Boymans and in 1996 'Ten years of commissioned drawing' in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He exhibited at Galerie Onrust. He also made gouaches for restaurant owner John Halvemaan and for a cookbook by Johannes van Dam. He is best known for his portraits of writers and composers.
(source: galeriesmarius)