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Cornelis Kloos

1895 · Rotterdam – 1976 · The Hague

Dutch painter, sculptor and watercolourist

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About the artist - Cornelis Kloos

Cornelis Kloos was a sculptor, painter, draughtsman and watercolourist. Cornelis was born in Rotterdam in 1895. After the First World War, Kloos went to the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.

He started his career as a drawing teacher. After 1925, however, he devoted himself entirely to art. He became a member of Pulchri Studio and the Hague Art Circle. Kloos is best known for his portraits of young women, often depicted naked. His work is often thickly painted and detailed.

Kloos was not bothered by the fact that some critics call this type of painting erotic. In his view, beauty and eroticism went very well together. His painting was always figurative. He was averse to abstraction. His painting style is in line with the New Objectivity of the twenties and thirties of the previous century.

Work by Cornelis Kloos: Standing nude in interior, watercolour on paper

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