Jan Bom - Aquarel

Landscape with bridge probably in Yugoslavia JAN BOM - Painter of the Dutch Landscape - He was a student of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. Jan Bom painted, watercoloured, etched and drew, too in pastel, mainly landscapes and seascapes. He was a member of various Hague and national associations. associations, such as Nederlandse Kunstkring, Arti et Industriae, Dutch Association of Marine Painters. In 1960 he won the Audience Award of the Hague Salon (Pulchri Studio) with “Fuik in de Waddenzee”. Many of his works have been sold to Germany. JAN BOM is listed in the SCHEEN LEXICON and in the AKL Algemeines Künstler Lexikon (Germany). He taught drawing and crafts at horticultural schools in The Hague, Rotterdam and Bleiswijk. In his spare time Jan went outside. The first years he painted and watercolored frequently on Terschelling and later works by, among others, the Nieuwe Waterweg, Rottemeren and Kagerplassen; but also works from foreign travels: Alsace/Vosges, Portugal and ex. Yugoslavia.