Biografie von Jan MENSES (1933)

Birth place: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Addresses: Montreal, PQ, Canada

Profession: Painter

Exhibited: 5th & 7th Biennial Can. Painting, 1963 & 1968 & 1st & 2nd Biennial Can. Watercolours, Drawings & Prints, 1964 & 1966, Nat. Gal. Can., Ottawa; 20 New Acquisitions, MoMA, 1966; 9th & 11th Int. Exh. Drawings & Engravings, Lugano, Switz., 1966 & 1972; Gal. Martal, Montreal, PQ, Canada, 1970s. Awards: Grand Prize Concours Artistiques PQ, 1965; award, Ninth Int. Exh. Drawings & Engravings, City Lugano, Switz., 1966; prize, Perspective 1967, Prov. of Ontario, 1967.

Member: Royal Can. Acad. Arts (assoc. mem.); Soc. Artistes Professionals Quebec.

Work: MoMA; Guggenheim Mus.; AIC; BM; Munic. Mus., Amsterdam, Holland.

Comments: Preferred medium: tempera.

Sources: WW73; "The Arts," Time Magazine (Canadian ed.), July 19, 1968; François Gagnon, "La Serie des K'lipoth de Jan Menses," Vie Arts (spring, 1972).