Kees Verwey (April 20, 1900–1995), was a Dutch painter who was productive skillfully into antiquated age.
He was born in Amsterdam and was the nephew of the poet Albert Verwey and the architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Henri Frédéric Boot, Johannes Hendricus Jurres, and Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. He was heavily influenced by the Hague School and Impressionism. His huge break came in 1931 taking into account his play-act was exhibited along subsequently that of new contemporary Haarlem artists (such as Hendrik van den Eijnde). The exhibition was held in the newly created Modern art gallery of the Frans Hals Museum located at the back the main museum (today the gallery for the schutterstukken). He was a advocate of the Haarlem artiste society “Kunst Zij Ons Doel”, the “Kennemer Kunstenaarskring, and “Hollandse Aquarellistenkring”. He married Jeanne Tilbusscher in 1951.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam showed his perform in the late 70s, and in Haarlem his law was shown in 1985 and 1990. In 1989 his measure was shown in the Dordrechts Museum and in 1990 in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. In 1993 the Gemeente Haarlem fashionable a gift of his entire oeuvre and named the extra art hall on the Grote Markt, Haarlem after him. Verwey had resolved this gift in 1984 behind the condition that a proper home for it needed to be created. When the city stalled in finding a location, Verwey financed the remodelling of a centrally located hall himself and brought his heap together next the Frans Hals Museum in a foundation that he also ran himself until his death.
His pupils were Mieke Burgers-Witteveen, Jules Chapon, Joop Dam (1922–1997), Jan Engelman, Henk Fonville, Frans Funke, Jan van Geem, Cor Hak, Kees de Jager, Hugo Liebe, Henk van der Linden, Hanne Meijer-de Heer, Jan Michels, Wim Steijn, and Karla Wenckebach. He died in Haarlem.
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