Wilm Woutersartist • painterDen Haag 1887-1957 Amsterdam

Wilm Wouters' artistic career started relatively late. He was a sailor and diamond worker before enrolling at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam around 1907. At that time he had his studio in De Pijp, where he was a regular visitor to Leo Gestel's famous Jan-Steenzolder. Wouters continued the figurative style that he had learned at the academy when he lived in Volendam between 1915 and 1928, where he painted interiors and figures. He married one of the daughters of the hotelier Leendert Spaander. In the 1920s, Wouters briefly painted realistic still lifes and flowers in Amsterdam. After that, he mainly focused on figures and portraits.