DOI issue:
No. 182 (January 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0055
AMSTERDAM
" A JAVANESE ACTOR "
BY JAN POORTENAAR
AMSTERDAM.— Jan Poortenaar, Mr. Poortenaar has spent the last few
whose etchings have been referred to years in the Far East. In Java Mr.
in The Studio, is also a painter of great Poortenaar was allowed admission to the
versatility. For several years he worked courts, and to the practising of the
in London, and the subjects of many of actors, and having been given oppor-
his plates are views in the British metro- tunity to work at ease, the dancers,
polis; especially of its bridges and mainly of royal and noble blood, sitting
edifices of bygone days. Several of these for him by order of their princes, suc-
prints are to found in the British and ceeded in doing a good many paintings
South Kensington Museums, as well as in of them in their fairy-tale attire. The
Continental public galleries. An exhibition spectacles in which these actors took part
comprising the majority of his work was were magnificent, and comparable with
recently held in the National Museum at the finest Russian ballet and the best
Amsterdam, the artist's native town. a Japanese acting. a a 0 a
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" A JAVANESE ACTOR "
BY JAN POORTENAAR
AMSTERDAM.— Jan Poortenaar, Mr. Poortenaar has spent the last few
whose etchings have been referred to years in the Far East. In Java Mr.
in The Studio, is also a painter of great Poortenaar was allowed admission to the
versatility. For several years he worked courts, and to the practising of the
in London, and the subjects of many of actors, and having been given oppor-
his plates are views in the British metro- tunity to work at ease, the dancers,
polis; especially of its bridges and mainly of royal and noble blood, sitting
edifices of bygone days. Several of these for him by order of their princes, suc-
prints are to found in the British and ceeded in doing a good many paintings
South Kensington Museums, as well as in of them in their fairy-tale attire. The
Continental public galleries. An exhibition spectacles in which these actors took part
comprising the majority of his work was were magnificent, and comparable with
recently held in the National Museum at the finest Russian ballet and the best
Amsterdam, the artist's native town. a Japanese acting. a a 0 a
49