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unusual facts about Dutch American



De Kooning: An American Master

de Kooning: An American Master is a biography of Dutch American painter Willem de Kooning, a prominent figure in the American movement of abstract expressionism in the thirties and forties.


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A Hidden Life

A Hidden Life is a memoir by the Dutch-American author Johanna Reiss.

Dalí-Jewels

Dalí, in collaboration with the Dutch American framemaker Henry Heydenryk, Jr. and Alemany, created special settings and illuminated frames for a traveling exhibition of the jewels sponsored by the Cheatham Foundation.

David Whiffen

He was the first to successfully test the predictions of the underlying theory of Peter Debye, the Dutch-American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1936 for his work on molecular structure, the theory of dipole moments in liquids and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases.

Eulenburg Expedition

During the negotiations with the Bakufu, Count Eulenburg had been assisted by Henry Heusken, a Dutch-American interpreter who usually worked for the US consul Townsend Harris.

Govert Schüller

Govert Schüller (born 1959) is a Dutch-American author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti and theosophy.

Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens

The garden features a one story tea house whose interior features a brick fireplace with carvings of mountains, windmills and other serene symbols representing aspects of Dutch-American history, others of motifs popular in 1930s: Popeye, the Baker Cocoa and Old Dutch Cleanser maids.

Shinkichi Tajiri

Shinkichi Tajiri (Los Angeles, December 7, 1923 – Baarlo, Netherlands, March 15, 2009) was a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry (a nisei or second generation emigrant from Japan).