Kees Schrikker

Cornelis (Kees) Schrikker was a Dutch sculptor, born in 1898 in Amsterdam. From 1926 to 1930 he went to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (National Academy of Visual Arts). From 1930 until 1948, he lived in Paris where he was a pupil of Charles Despiau, Charles Malfray, and Marcel Antoine Gimond at their galleries. He exhibited in the Salon des Tuileries between 1933 and 1940. Schrikker was a member of the associations Vereeniging Sint Lucas and Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, the Nederlandse Kring van Beeldhouwers NKVB (association of Dutch sculptors) and the Gooische Schildersvereniging (painter association). He was a teacher and director at the Gooische Academie in Laren. He worked with bronze, wood and stone. He participated in about sixty exhibitions. In 1954, he organised a Dutch Sculptors Exhibition in the Slot Zeist and in Beverwijk. He also made two war memorials. Schrikker died in 1993 in Laren.