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Jan Nieuwenhuys studied for a short period of time in 1941 until 1942
at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, where he painted in the same bold naturalistic
way as Braque and Matisse.
From the end of the fourties he changed way of expression to the more
childish, spontanious, abstract-figurative style that evolved at the same
time among dutch artists like Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant.
In 1948 he was one of the founders of Nederlandse Experimentele Group,
that later that year became the dutch part of Cobra. Mythical themes and
motifs with mainly birds having several heads and creatures half men half
sea animals was inhabiting his canvases until the sixties.
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