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Jan Willemen (Dongen, 27 February 1912 - ibid., 17 March 1985) was a stained glass artist and graphic artist in Dongen.
From 1942 to 1945, he studied at the Academy of Fine and Architectural Arts in Tilburg, where he was a student of Jan van Delft, among others. He also took lessons with Gerrit de Morée and Dio Rovers in Breda.
From 1946 to 1949, he studied at the Royal National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and in 1947 he participated in his first group exhibition in Breda. His first public work dates from the same year and consists of a mural in the Sint-Elisabethgasthuis in Dongen.
In 1960, he became a teacher at the John F. Kennedy Academy, but when stained-glass artist Jan Huet died in 1976, Jan Willemen was asked to take over his work for the church in Hoogstraten. Several retrospective exhibitions followed.