Aloys Johann Kreuzerartist • painterMünchen (Duitsland) 1911-1977 Den Haag

After the First World War, Aloys Kreuzer, who was born in Munich, was part of a children's transport to the Netherlands to recuperate. His memories of it are so good that he left for the Netherlands permanently after his secondary school education in 1928. After a few years of office work he decided to become an artist and enrolled at the academy in The Hague. His early work includes impressionist landscapes, realistic still lifes and also figures and portraits that are favourably received by critics. In 1936 he had his first exhibition in the Bennewitz Gallery in The Hague. From 1950 onwards, Kreuzer experienced great growth. He moves more freely between styles, experiments with cubism and abstraction, and his colours become bright and bold. From the 1960s onwards, his work increasingly took on a spiritual content and he also painted a series of icons.