Artist: Sluijters jr., Jan

Jan Jan Sluijters Jr. was born on January 9, 1914 in Amsterdam and died in June 2005 in Hilversum. He was the son of Jan Sluijters Sr. (1881 – 1957) and the brother of Lous and Eliza Sluijters. He studied at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam, at the Rijksnormaalschool voor Kunstnijverheid in Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten also in Amsterdam. He was also a pupil of his father Jan C.B. Sluijters Sr. and Hendrik Adriaan van der Wal. later he became a teacher of Pieter Apol and Gé Terhorst.

As a painter he was active in many places in Europe (the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Baambrugge, Loenersloot and 's-Graveland, France, Italy, Morocco and Spain). In addition to being a painter and draughtsman, he was also active as a watercolourist. His subjects were very diverse: workers, interiors, landscapes, nude figures, portraits, cityscapes and figurative representations. He also received the Willink van Collen Prize twice. Sluijters was a member of Vereeniging Sint Lucas in Amsterdam, of Arti et Amicitiae also in Amsterdam and of the Rembrandt Society: the Society for Art and Art Longing.