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Eduard Willem Anton Dukkers Dukkers born on May 1, 1923 in Zandvoort and died in Amsterdam in 1996.
Dukkers studied at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam. As a painter he is self-taught. He painted, drew and lithographed.
Initially he worked in Zandvoort, but from 1940 onwards in Amsterdam.
In 1946 Willem Sandberg, director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, selected him for the exhibition “Ten young painters”, in which Appel, Corneille and Rooskens also participated.
As with many at that time, Dukkers also shows expressionistic tendencies, but he soon appears to set his goals differently. Literary, surrealistic themes interest him, in which death, eroticism and rituals are closely interwoven.
Dukkers was a member of “De Keerkring” since 1956 and won the Tetar van Elven travel grant in 1952. After that, they made many foreign trips, in particular to Greece.
In his entire oeuvre, man in general is central. From 1985 onwards, his work shows an increasing simplification and abstraction.