Jos van den Berg - Jos (Josje) van den Berg

(Text is from Wikipedia) Van den Berg studied at the Royal Academy of Art from 1929 to 1935. Van den Berg was taught there by Henk Meijer, among others.[1]

In 1932 he received a grant from the Klinkenberg Fund, which enabled him to travel to Toulon-Hyères in France. Here he put several works on paper and canvas. At the same time he received a Royal Subsidy gratuity four times. In 1937 he won first prize in the competition of the Vigelius legacy at the KABK.[2] In 1956 he received the Jacob Hartog Prize.[3] Van den Berg has had exhibitions in both the Netherlands and abroad. In 1964 he designed a postage stamp for the PTT.[4]
Van den Berg was occupied with painting, drawing (with pencil, crayon, pen and charcoal), etching and wood - and linocutting. Common genres that he practiced were: nudes, still lifes, landscapes and portraits. His style fell in the modern-realistic plane.
In The Hague, Van den Berg was a striking figure: as a person with a growth disorder, he rode through the city on an adapted scooter.[5] He was a well-known face in the art community. He was a member of Pulchri Studio, Teekengenootschap Pictura and the Hague Watercolourists.[1] After a long illness, he died on 14 November 1978. He was buried in Amersfoort.[6]
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