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2 unusual facts about Maarten Krabbé


Maarten Krabbé

In his youth Krabbé studied the Face Book (Gelatenboek) by Petrus Camper (1780) and found his inspiration as a painter in Cubism, children’s drawings, Joseph René Gockinga (1893–1962) and Aubrey Beardsley.

In the war years of 1940 -1945, the now famous series of etchings was created on the subject of Cervantes'sDon Quixote.



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