Kees Andrea

Kees Andrea worked in many media, being known as a painter, watercolorist, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, woodcutter, graphic designer, illustrator, wall painter, textile artist (weaving) and mosaic creator. His favorite subjects were portraits, figurative sculptures, religious figures, interiors, landscapes, animals, still lifes and winter landscapes. His father August had been a lithographer, and his son, Pat Andrea (*1942), also became a painter.

Kees studied in Den Haag, where he later lived between 1930 and 2002, and where he was a member of several art associations. His oeuvre tended towards a lyrical realism. In the years after World War II, he created a series of paintings showing bathers in various techniques including his 1952 entry Resting Bathers.