Frans Thomas Koppelaar is a Dutch painter, who was born at The Hague, Netherlands. He attended the Royal Academy of Visual Arts at The Hague and after it he moved to Amsterdam in 1968.
His landscapes and Amsterdam cityscapes are painted in a style that recalls the classical tradition of the Hague School and the Amsterdam Impressionists. Koppelaar's work is congenial to a figurative movement in Dutch contemporary painting that evolved during the 90s in a reaction to the pared-down conceptual art and the too pompous art-theories of that period. Through the years his style evolved into a simpler, straightforward approach. By 1984, he no longer identified himself with any art movement.
“I don't believe in longwinded manifestos. The paintings can speak for themselves more honestly than anything I could say. I only paint things for which I have a strong emotional attraction. I am drawn to certain subjects that I return to over and over again. I have always been fascinated by cities with their dazzling structure of buildings, streets, canals, trees, cars and of course people.” (Frans Thomas Koppelaar)
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Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Wintersun at Prinseneiland
Date: 1991 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Scheveningen Marina
Date: 2007 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Backlight Langestraat
Date: 1993 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Sitting Nude
Date: 2003 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Nude Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
View at Droeszling
Date: 2001 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Foresters house
Date: 2004 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Haarlemmerplein in winter, Amsterdam
Date: 1994 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Kalverstraat by night
Date: 1997 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Prinsengracht Canal in Autumn
Date: 2005 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Portrait of "Mijke"
Date: 2005 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Landscape near Bologna
Date: 2001 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Tom Cat
Date: 2005 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Animals Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Snowcovered Blaauwbrug
Date: 1991 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Koppelaar, Frans Thomas
Catalunia
Date: 2002 Movement: New-Figuration / New-Academism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas