Jaap Berghuis

Dutch artist (1945–2005)

Jakob Albertus Victor (Jaap) Berghuis, (15 August 1945 – 29 July 2005) 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, Netherlands.

From 1969 to 1989 Berghuis exhibited with the renowned Art & Project Gallery in Amsterdam,^[1] with two exhibitions in 1974 and one in 1980.^[2] Further exhibitions include:

the Atelier 11, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1973);
Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1975);^[3]
the 9th Biennale de Paris (1975); and
Neue Malerei aus den Niederlanden, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joaneum, Graz, Germany (1980).

References

^ 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,