Geer van Velde
Dutch painter
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| Intro | Dutch painter | |
| A.K.A. | Geer Van Velde Gerardus Velde Gerard Van Velde Geer Velde Gerardus van Velde | |
| A.K.A. | Geer Van Velde Gerardus Velde Gerard Van Velde Geer Velde Gerardus van Velde | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 5 April 1898, Lisse | |
| Death | 5 March 1977Cachan (aged 78 years) |
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Gerardus "Geer" van Velde (5 April 1898, Lisse – 5 March 1977, Cachan, Paris) was a Dutch painter.
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Early life
Van Velde was the second son of Willem Adriaan van Velde, then owner of a small case of inland waterway transport fuelwood and charcoal on the Rhine and Hendrika Catharina von der Voorst, illegitimate daughter of an earl. Catharina and her four children (Neeltje, Bram, Geer, and Jacoba) were abandoned by Willem Adriaan after the bankruptcy of his business, leaving them in misery. Moving a lot, they eventually moved to The Hague in 1903. In 1910, at the age of twelve, Geer became an apprentice designer in the firm with Schaijk & Eduard H. Kramers. Kramers encouraged Geer to develop his interest in painting, as he did with his brother Bram van Velde.