Dutch painter Gé Hurkmans studied simultaneously at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam and the Academy St. Joost in Den Bosch from 1928-34. He then taught drawing, architecture and art history at schools in Bergen Op Zoom, Tilburg, Amsterdam and Den Bosch. Hurkmans was drawing and painting teacher at the academy in Den Bosch during the 1940s, where he was later director from 1959-76. Hurkmans was primarily a landscape painter and designer of posters for Catholic propaganda. His wife Lucie was a meritorious fashion illustrator.
Netherlands