Biography of Jean Paul Vroom

John (Jean) Paul Vroom was born on 21 January 1922 in the Hague and died in 2006 in Amsterdam. From 1938 to 1939 he studied painting at the Royal Academy of fine arts in the Hague, but left at an early age to Paris. Here he visited the École Estienne visited from 1944 to 1946, where he studied graphical techniques in particular. In 1955, he returned to the Netherlands. He went on to teach at the free Academy of George Lampe in the Hague. Partly as a result of Pure Driver he chose often the landscape as subject: fields, plants, leaves, but also the urban landscape in the US for example. Through his collaboration with Hans van Manen to Dutch Dance Theatre and the National Ballet, dancers were also an important subject. In 1976 began cooperation with Hans Jansen, who in 1972 in Amsterdam are screen printing workshop was started. While screen printing at that time especially was known as a modern graphics technique that lets you print large colour planes could (à là Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella and others), they developed a screen print with engraving-like characteristics which make a layered image with halftones.