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RIA (Maria Geertruida Elisabeth) Van Klaveren-Exel was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 11 May 1915 and died on 19-03-1985 in the Hague. Her mother had Irish ancestors who worked in shipping and her father was a history teacher and writer and came from Duisburg. Followed her training at the Royal Academy of fine arts in the Hague and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She was employed in Rotterdam, the Hague and Paris. Made study trips to Italy and Switzerland in Basel and Zurich. During the war she remained resistance publications, which is not without consequences. In that time they provided an edition of stories of the poet R.M. Rilke of illustrations.
From 1952 to 1958 she was teacher at the Royal Academy in the Hague. In 1959 she won the price of Edinburg for her etchings. Ria Exel was a versatile artist, best known with her etchings, drawings and illustrations, but also on making tapestries, sculptures and paintings. Various exhibitions in Belgium and abroad in the Post Horn and galleries in Rotterdam, Leiden and Amsterdam. She was outside to see Netherlands in the collective exhibition together with Paul Citroen, Jenny dalenoord at Brussels (Benelux home) in 1958 and in 1959 in Berlin together with Kees Andréa, Paul Citroen, Jenny dalenoord. Member of the Haagse kunstkring and the group.
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