Friso ten Holt

Friso ten Holt (1921-1997) started off as a pupil of his father Henri ten Holt (1884-1968). While on the art academy in Amsterdam he was influenced by the cubism of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He was a painter, watercolourist, sculptor, draftsman, etcher and lithographer. He painted many landscapes and designed windows for churches. He taught at Academie '63 in Haarlem and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In 1958 works by Friso ten Holt were part of the exhibition New Religious Art in the Prinsenhof in Delft.