About Theodorus Van Hoytema
Van Hoytema drew stuffed birds at the Leiden natural history museum and turned the observations into some of the finest lithographic illustrations in Dutch art. His children's picture books of the early 1890s, inspired by Walter Crane and Japanese graphic art, made him famous.
He was born in The Hague in 1863, the youngest of eight children, orphaned in the 1870s. He studied at the Royal Academy and created designs for ceramics produced by the Porceleyne Fles pottery in Delft. His popular annual calendars, published from 1901, combined Art Nouveau ornament with naturalistic bird and animal observation. He is considered the most important lithographic artist in the Netherlands. He died in 1917.
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Theodorus Van Hoytema
Van Hoytema drew stuffed birds at the Leiden natural history museum and turned the observations into some of the finest lithographic illustrations in Dutch art. His children's picture books of the early 1890s, inspired by Walter Crane and Japanese graphic art, made him famous. He was born in The Hague in 1863, the youngest of eight children, orphaned in the 1870s. He studied at the Royal Academy and created designs for ceramics produced by the Porceleyne Fles pottery in Delft. His popular annual calendars, published from 1901, combined Art Nouveau ornament with naturalistic bird and animal observation. He is considered the most important lithographic artist in the Netherlands. He died in 1917.
