Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek II

The field of work recorded is young adult literature. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and animal. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam, Natura Artis Magistra and Groningen. Employment is recorded with National Museum of Natural History. Work by Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek II is recorded in the collections of Liemers Museum, Historic Centre Leeuwarden, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Museum De Scheper and Museum Nijkerk.

He was a member of the famous Koekkoek family of painters; son of the cityscape painter, Willem Koekkoek; grandson of Hermanus Koekkoek, and great-grandson of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek. His brother, Hermanus Willem, also became a painter; specializing in military subjects. His father gave him and Hermanus their first art lessons. His career began and ended in Amsterdam. In between, he spent twenty years at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, in Leiden, illustrating academic works. He is best-known for his watercolor illustrations; notably Ornithologia Neerlandica: de vogels van Nederland, by Eduard Daniël van Oort, which was published in five parts from 1922 to 1935. He also created color plates for two series of schoolbooks on nature: In Ons Land, and Buiten Ons Land. His last works were a set of postcards for Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam. Following World War II, he was falsely accused of having been a Nazi collaborator; creating propaganda posters for the Hitler Youth and the Nederlands Arbeidsfront. In 2011, it was demonstrated that the posters were actually created by his son, Cornelis Koekkoek, who was associated with the National Socialist Dutch Workers Party. • Illustration — "From the Australian Animal World", a classroom wall poster in the series, Dieren en hun omgeving (Animals and Their Environment) A species of snake, Malayotyphlops koekkoeki, on the Indonesian island of Bunyu, near Borneo, was named in his honor.