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Rien Poortvliet
Dutch painter
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| Born | ()7 August Schiedam, Netherlands |
| Died | 15 September () (aged&#;63) Soest, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known&#;for | Painting |
Rien Poortvliet (Dutch pronunciation:[rimˈpoːrtflit];[a] 7 August – 15 September ) was a Dutch artist and illustrator.[1]
Life
Born in Schiedam, Poortvliet was best known for his drawings[2] of animals and for "Gnomes", a famous series of illustrated books with text by Wil Huygen.[3]
Poortvliet did not attend art school and his family discouraged him from becoming an artist: `My family thought that artists were, you know, a little bit dangerous, all those naked women, all that drinking all night."[4] Instead, Poortvliet's father wanted him pursue a profession that would produce a stable income, so Poortvliet began a career in advertising, initially drawing scenes of families for soap compa