Dirk Koningartist • painterGrootschermer 1888-1978 Naarden

Dirk Koning, graphic artist and painter, was, like his wife Lou Loeber, a socialist and pacifist and an active member of the Socialist Art Circle. Based on this conviction, he wanted to work in a clear, 'understandable' visual language and developed a simplified form of realism tending towards abstraction. Dirk Koning was born in Groot-Schermer and learned to paint scenery in Amsterdam. In 1920 he moved to Het Gooi, where he was included in the circle of modern artists. There he met the painter Lou Loeber, daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, whom he married in 1931. Loeber inherited her parental home Villa Zonnehof in Blaricum, where the couple would live until Dirk Koning's death.