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60 Notable alumni of Royal Academy of Art The Hague

Updated: May 31, 2026 EliteDegrees

Royal Academy of Art The Hague is ranked #7,254 in the world and #45 in Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from Royal Academy of Art The Hague sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Royal Academy of Art The Hague won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Dick Stapel

1. Dick Stapel

1942-. (aged 84)
painter
Dick Simon Stapel is a Dutch portrait painter known for his portraits mounted on large format, painted with a light touch.
Adri Bleuland van Oordt

2. Adri Bleuland van Oordt

1862-1944 (aged 82)
suffragist painter watercolorist activist draftsperson
Adri Bleuland van Oordt was a Dutch artist and draftswoman who was active from around 1877 until her death in 1944.
Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

3. Hetty Broedelet-Henkes

1877-1966 (aged 89)
painter
Hetty Broedelet-Henkes was a Dutch painter known for her still lifes.
Johanna Bleuland van Oordt

4. Johanna Bleuland van Oordt

1865-1948 (aged 83)
painter
Johanna Jacoba Bleuland van Oordt was a Dutch painter.
Anton Abraham van Anrooy

5. Anton Abraham van Anrooy

1870-1949 (aged 79)
painter architect illustrator
Anton Abraham van Anrooy was a Dutch painter and illustrator, naturalised as British.
Herman Mees

6. Herman Mees

1880-1964 (aged 84)
painter
Hermanus "Herman" Ellen Mees was a Dutch artist, active as painter, watercolorist, draftsman, pastelist, lithographer, and academy lecturer. He was specialized in portrait painting.
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Alida Jantina Pott

7. Alida Jantina Pott

1888-1931 (aged 43)
painter etcher jewelry designer drawing teacher draftsperson
Alida Jantina Pott was a Dutch visual artist and member of the Groninger art collective De Ploeg.
Jacob Jan van der Maaten

8. Jacob Jan van der Maaten

1820-1879 (aged 59)
painter etcher
Jacob Jan van der Maaten was a Dutch painter and etcher. Van der Maaten was a pupil of Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen and studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In 1852 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Later, Van der Maaten became teacher at the so-called King's School in...
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Hansje van Halem

9. Hansje van Halem

1978-. (aged 48)
postage stamp designer graphic designer graphic artist type designer
Hansje van Halem is a Dutch graphic designer and type designer. Her work is typified by geometric, repetitive, sometimes almost psychedelic patterns. She works at the intersection of text, illustration, pattern, colour, texture, distortions, interruptions, variations, symmetry, systematic approach and irregularities. Van Halem combines the more open rules of patterns with the tighter ruleset of typography and explores the boundaries...
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Cor Dam

10. Cor Dam

1935-2019 (aged 84)
painter sculptor pottery painter draftsperson ceramicist
Cornelis Dam was a Dutch artist, who was a sculptor, painter, illustrator and ceramist.
Dirk Bus

11. Dirk Bus

1907-1978 (aged 71)
modeler sculptor medalist draftsperson
Dirk Bus was a Dutch sculptor.
Kees Verschuren

12. Kees Verschuren

1941-. (aged 85)
sculptor painter collagist
Henricus Petrus Cornelis Verschuren (born Breda, 29 August 1941) is a Dutch sculptor, painter and former lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, known for his monumentalist sculptures in public places in the Netherlands.
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Willem de Famars Testas

13. Willem de Famars Testas

1834-1896 (aged 62)
photographer painter
Willem de Famars Testas, was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator noted for his Orientalist paintings and drawings.
David Bles

14. David Bles

1821-1899 (aged 78)
painter lithographer draftsperson
David Bles, was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Adrianus Zwart

15. Adrianus Zwart

1903-1981 (aged 78)
painter
Adrianus Johannes "Arie" Zwart was a Dutch painter and in his early work one of the last painters of the Hague School.
Toon Dupuis

16. Toon Dupuis

1877-1937 (aged 60)
sculptor medalist artist ceramics designer
Antonius Stanislaus Nicolaas Ludovicus Dupuis was a Dutch sculptor and medallist of Belgian origin. He's the son of the sculptor Louis Dupuis (1842–1921).
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Chris Lanooy

17. Chris Lanooy

1881-1948 (aged 67)
glass artist exlibrist designer pen drawer decorative painter of objects
Johannes Christiaan "Chris" Lanooy was a Dutch potter and designer, who worked as ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art.
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Everhardus Koster

18. Everhardus Koster

1817-1892 (aged 75)
painter draftsperson
Everhardus Koster was a Dutch painter who specialized in sea and river scenes. For many years, he served as Director of the various museums that were formerly housed in the Villa Welgelegen.
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Anna Abrahams

19. Anna Abrahams

1849-1930 (aged 81)
painter watercolorist
Anna Adelaïde Abrahams, was a Dutch still life painter.
Henk Ovink

20. Henk Ovink

1967-. (aged 59)
diplomat designer civil servant
Henk Ovink is a Dutch water advocate and flood expert. From March 2015 until August 2023, he served as special envoy for International Water Affairs appointed by the Cabinet of the Netherlands. He was succeeded by Meike van Ginneken.
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Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter

21. Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter

1844-1913 (aged 69)
painter
Édouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter was a French painter who specialized in genre and Orientalist scenes.
Herman Rosse

22. Herman Rosse

1887-1965 (aged 78)
scenographer university teacher architect costume designer painter
Hermann Rosse was a Dutch-American architect, illustrator, painter, theatrical designer, and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Production Design for the film the King of Jazz.
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Toer van Schayk

23. Toer van Schayk

1936-. (aged 90)
scenographer theatre designer ballet dancer choreographer watercolorist
Toer van Schayk is a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer, scenic and costume designer, painter, and sculptor. Along with Rudi van Dantzig and Hans van Manen, he is one of the creative triumvirate that brought the Dutch National Ballet to international prominence in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa

24. Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa

1861-1942 (aged 81)
painter draftsperson
Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa was part of the second generation of the Hague School painters. Akkeringa is primarily known for his paintings and watercolours of women and playing children at the beach, women mending nets and intimate tea-time conversations.
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Gerrit van Houten

25. Gerrit van Houten

1866-1934 (aged 68)
painter exlibrist watercolorist draftsperson
Gerrit van Houten was a Dutch painter and artist.
Kees Bol

26. Kees Bol

1916-2009 (aged 93)
painter
Cornelis "Kees" Bol was a Dutch painter and art educator. His work was exhibited in art galleries and museums throughout the Netherlands, as well as in Paris. Bol's work encompassed landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. His style can be described as figurative and expressive, with a specific feeling for tonal quality. In 1950 Bol was awarded the Thérèse van...
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Frans Koppelaar

27. Frans Koppelaar

1943-. (aged 83)
painter
Frans Thomas Koppelaar is a Dutch painter, who was born in The Hague, Netherlands.
Cornelis Zitman

28. Cornelis Zitman

1926-2016 (aged 90)
painter sculptor artist draftsperson
Cornelis Zitman was a Dutch sculptor and draftsman.
Albert-Jan Pool

29. Albert-Jan Pool

1960-. (aged 66)
graphic designer designer artist university teacher typographer
Albert-Jan Pool is a Dutch type designer and educator.
Tinus van Doorn

30. Tinus van Doorn

1905-1940 (aged 35)
illustrator etcher lino cutter exlibrist painter
Martinus Jacob van Doorn was a Dutch painter and graphic artist in the Expressionist style.
Marcel van Eeden

31. Marcel van Eeden

1965-. (aged 61)
painter draftsperson installation artist sculptor animator
Marcel van Eeden is a Dutch draftsman and painter. From 1989 to 1993 van Eeden studied painting at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Van Eeden lives and works in Zurich and The Hague. Characteristically, van Eeden's work is reminiscent of the film-noir period, of almost photo-realistic depictions and he manipulates the use of the black and white...
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Jan Snoeck

32. Jan Snoeck

1927-2018 (aged 91)
painter sculptor textile artist medalist graphic artist
Jan Cornelis Snoeck was a Dutch sculptor and ceramist.
Wim Rietveld

33. Wim Rietveld

1924-1985 (aged 61)
industrial designer university teacher designer Dutch extraordinary professor furniture designer
Wim Rietveld was a Dutch industrial and furniture designer. His father was the architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld.
Marius Bauer

34. Marius Bauer

1867-1932 (aged 65)
painter lithographer printmaker draftsperson
Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, best known for his Oriental scenes. His style was largely Impressionistic, although it also derived to some extent from the Hague School. Many of his works were based on photographs he bought during his travels, some of which were by famous photographers such as Félix Bonfils.
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Peter Alma

35. Peter Alma

1886-1969 (aged 83)
graphic artist etcher muralist wood engraver designer
Peter Alma was a Dutch artist. Alma was born in Medan, Indonesia, and attended the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 1904. On the recommendation of Franz Seiwert, he was employed by the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum, working with Gerd Arntz and Augustin Tschinkel on developing isotypes. He travelled to Moscow with Arntz and Otto Neurath to work at IZOSTAT...
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Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer

36. Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer

1839-1902 (aged 63)
painter designer watercolorist draftsperson
Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer was a Dutch painter. He originally worked in the Romantic and Academic styles, but later became an Impressionist.
Willem de Zwart

37. Willem de Zwart

1862-1931 (aged 69)
painter draftsperson watercolorist visual artist etcher
Wilhelmus "Willem" Hendrikus Petrus Johannes de Zwart was a Dutch painter, engraver, and watercolorist with many connections to the Hague School and later associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
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Pat Andrea

38. Pat Andrea

1942-. (aged 84)
illustrator draftsperson watercolorist etcher muralist
Pat Andrea is a Dutch contemporary painter and sculptor. He is one of the representatives of the New Subjectivity.
Carel Visser

39. Carel Visser

1928-2015 (aged 87)
illustrator photographer architect textile designer goldsmith
Carel Nicolaas Visser was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture.
Ian Fairweather

40. Ian Fairweather

1891-1974 (aged 83)
painter
Ian Fairweather was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined Western and Asian influences in his work.
Dolly Rudeman

41. Dolly Rudeman

1902-1980 (aged 78)
designer graphic designer illustrator
Dolly Rudeman was a Dutch graphic designer who produced posters for some of the most famous directors and film stars of her day, including Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo.
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Johannes Bosboom

42. Johannes Bosboom

1817-1891 (aged 74)
painter lithographer watercolorist etcher draftsperson
Johannes Bosboom was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors.
Charles Leickert

43. Charles Leickert

1818-1907 (aged 89)
painter lithographer etcher draftsperson
Charles Henri Joseph Leickert was a Dutch painter of landscapes. As a specialist in winter landscapes, he explored the nuances of the evening sky and the rosy-fingered dawn.
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Rie Cramer

44. Rie Cramer

1887-1977 (aged 90)
postage stamp designer etcher pottery painter graphic designer children's writer
Marie "Rie" Cramer was a Dutch writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was one of the two main illustrators for a leading Dutch youth magazine, Zonneschijn (Sunshine). She also wrote plays under the pseudonym Marc Holman. Some of her work was banned during World War II...
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Emmy Andriesse

45. Emmy Andriesse

1914-1953 (aged 39)
fashion photographer designer resistance fighter draftsperson photographer
Emmy Eugenie Andriesse was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Amsterdam Underground Camera group (De Ondergedoken Camera ) during World War II.
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Paul Citroen

46. Paul Citroen

1896-1983 (aged 87)
etcher glass designer designer ceramicist writer
Roelof Paul Citroen was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps.
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Jacob Maris

47. Jacob Maris

1837-1899 (aged 62)
exlibrist watercolorist painter lithographer etcher
Jacob Henricus Maris was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the...
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Luc(as) de Groot

48. Luc(as) de Groot

1963-. (aged 63)
graphic designer typographer type designer university teacher
Lucas de Groot, known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot, is a Dutch type designer. He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik, also trading as LucasFonts.
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Matthijs Maris

49. Matthijs Maris

1839-1917 (aged 78)
painter lithographer draftsperson watercolorist graphic artist
Matthias Maris was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer. He was also known as Matthijs Maris or Thijs. He initially belonged to the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob and Willem, but his later works deviated more and more from that school into a unique style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
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Iwan Baan

50. Iwan Baan

1975-. (aged 51)
architectural photographer architect photographer
Iwan Baan is a Dutch photographer. He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building's environment, trying "to produce more of a story or a feel for a project" and "to communicate how people use the space". He has photographed buildings by many of the world's most...
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Willem Maris

51. Willem Maris

1844-1910 (aged 66)
painter draftsperson watercolorist landscape painter graphic artist
Willem Maris was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School.
Co Westerik

52. Co Westerik

1924-2018 (aged 94)
draftsperson graphic artist watercolorist etcher ceramicist
Jacobus "Co" Westerik was a Dutch visual artist.
Jan Mankes

53. Jan Mankes

1889-1920 (aged 31)
printmaker painter
Jan Mankes was a Dutch painter. He produced around 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30. His restrained, detailed work ranged from self-portraits to landscapes and studies of birds and animals. His work is now exhibited in his native Netherlands in the Museum Arnhem, Museum Belvédère and Museum MORE.
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Barry Hay

54. Barry Hay

1948-. (aged 78)
singer songwriter guitarist
Barry Andrew Hay is a Dutch musician; he was the lead vocalist and frontman of Dutch rock band Golden Earring from 1967 until their disbandment in 2021. He has also released three solo albums.
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Peter Struycken

55. Peter Struycken

1939-. (aged 87)
sculptor draftsperson photographer postage stamp designer university teacher
Peter Struycken is a Dutch artist. The painter, computer artist and sculptor won the 2012 Heineken Prize for Arts from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1984.
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Tom Manders

56. Tom Manders

1921-1972 (aged 51)
singer cabaret performer actor draftsperson theatre designer
Antoon Manders was a Dutch artist, comedian and cabaret performer. In later role, he became better known as Dorus.
Jan Cremer

57. Jan Cremer

1940-2024 (aged 84)
illustrator photographer wood carver visual artist serigrapher
Johan Cremer was a Dutch author, photographer and painter. His best known work is the novel Ik, Jan Cremer ("I, Jan Cremer"; 1964) and the sequel Ik, Jan Cremer, tweede boek ("I, Jan Cremer, second book"; 1966). The publication of this book created scandal in the Netherlands because of its explicit sexual contents. He was also active as photographer and...
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George Hendrik Breitner

58. George Hendrik Breitner

1857-1923 (aged 66)
draftsperson printmaker wood engraver architectural draftsperson etcher
George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic style. He painted en plein air, and became interested in photography as a means of documenting street life and atmospheric effects – rainy weather in particular – as reference materials...
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Isaac Israëls

59. Isaac Israëls

1865-1934 (aged 69)
illustrator lithographer watercolorist etcher photographer
Isaac Lazarus Israëls was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said

60. Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said

1944-. (aged 82)
politician
Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al-Said is the Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers in the Sultanate of Oman. He has served in this post since 23 June 1972.
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