Jaap Berghuis

Jaap Berghuis

1945 - 2005

Jakob Albertus Victor was a Dutch artist.

Born in the town of Smilde, Drenthe Province, in the Netherlands, Berghuis graduated Cum Laude in Interior Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Followed by a degree in painting at the Ateliers '63 (now De Ateliers) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

From 1969 to 1989 Berghuis exhibited with the renowned Art & Project Gallery in Amsterdam, with two exhibitions in 1974 and one in 1980. Further exhibitions include:

the Atelier 11, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1973);

Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1975);

the 9th Biennale de Paris (1975); and

Neue Malerei aus den Niederlanden, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joaneum, Graz, Germany (1980).

^ Cherix, Christophe (2009). In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-87070-753-7.

^ See Art & Project Bulletin 77, 79 & 118)

^ Fundamental Painting,

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