Isidore (Isidoor) Van Mens - Artist Info

About Isidore (Isidoor) Van Mens

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Isidorus Maria Cornelis Van Mens
  • Biography

    From his early years, Isidore Van Mens shows us beautiful work with figures in the streets, beaches, fairs and also cartoon scene drawings. His works resembles close connections to other Dutch painters, for instance Willy Sluiter (1873-1949) and Piet van der Hem (1885-1961).

    In approximately 1920, Isidore van Mens began to travel around the world: North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunesia) and Indonesia, where he arrived in 1928. There he visited Java and Bali and later made his way to China and India. Between these travels he also created works in Belgium, France and Spain.

    Throughout this period he produced magnificent Orientalist paintings, and most of these works are situated and dated, which really makes it possible ...

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