Petrus Johannes Teunissen - Amsterdam

Petrus Johannes (Piet) Teunissen (Amsterdam, 23 May 1890 - Dongen, 9 November 1958) was a Dutch painter. He also made many drawings and etchings. Life course Piet Teunissen received his education in Amsterdam, after preparatory studies at the Rijksmuseum drawing school under JWH Berden and lastly from 1916-1918 as a guest student at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Student of Carel Lodewyk Dake and Nicolaas van der Waay. In 1911 he took part in the action of the Bond Heemschut against disfiguring advertising in the landscape. That year he became (at the age of twenty-one) a member of the Artists' Association Sint Lucas. At the end of 1921 he was appointed drawing teacher at the Grafisch Lyceum Eindhoven, where he retired in 1955. He had lived in Eindhoven since 1922. Works made in Amsterdam therefore mostly date from before 1922, the Eindhoven and Brabant ones from after 1922. He married in 1931. After becoming a widower in 1949, he remarried in 1950.