Karel Bruckman - olie op doek, handgesigneerd rechtsonder - Sold

Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (nickname Karel) and his twin brother Lodewijk Karel (nickname Loki) were born August 14, 1903 in The Hague. Their father was a house and decorative painter, their uncle Willem Leonardus Bruckman (1866-1928) was a painter of Gooise figures and interiors. According to Karel himself, the twins could only be sweetened if they could draw. Their father provided them with pencils, paint and paper that he bought in the department store on Lange Poten in The Hague, opposite the Passage. In 1916 the brothers – thirteen years old – went to the Royal Academy of Art in the royal city. They graduated there in 1922. Karel left the academy with the certificate of MO signing in his pocket. After their exams, their father apprenticed them for two years in the painting class of Henk Meijer (1884-1970). After his education, Karel specialized in designing sets and costumes for opera and stage, with which he built up a big name over the years. As a painter, Karel Bruckman, like his twin brother Loki, made realistic and surrealistic work. Techniques: drawing, watercolor and oil paint. Subjects: many still lifes and also figure representations and forest views. From 1940 he lived in Amsterdam where he died on November 3, 1982.