Gerardus “Geer” van Velde (5 April 1898, Lisse – 5 March 1977, Cachan, Paris) was a Dutch painter.
Van Velde was the second son of Willem Adriaan van Velde, then owner of a little case of inland waterway transport fuelwood and charcoal on the Rhine and Hendrika Catharina von der Voorst, illegitimate daughter of an earl. Catharina and her four children (Neeltje, Bram, Geer, and Jacoba) were without help by Willem Adriaan after the bankruptcy of his business, leaving them in misery. Moving a lot, they eventually moved to The Hague in 1903. In 1910, at the age of twelve, Geer became an apprentice designer in the unlimited with Schaijk & Eduard H. Kramers. Kramers encouraged Geer to develop his fascination in painting, as he did gone his brother Bram van Velde.
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