Nico Bakker

• Name — Nico Bakker • Birth Name — Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker • Born — 3 January 1936 • Birthplace — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Died — 21 November 1969 • Place of death — Meppel, Netherlands • Education — Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten • Movement — Realism, abstract • Children — 4 • Website — https: www.anjbakker.nl/

Bakker was born in Amsterdam and studied there at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. He was a pupil of Otto B. de Kat and Gé Röling. He became a teacher at the same institution in 1967 and taught Joost Barbiers. Bakker worked in Amsterdam and Nieuwkoop. In 1961, he won the Prix de Rome. He worked in Switzerland for a year where he met Walter Clénin and made gouaches. He also made gouache paintings of IJmuiden, Amsterdam and later Nieuwkoop. He made a series of gouaches for a topographical atlas of Amsterdam and of the Delta Works for Rijkswaterstaat. Bakker died in 1969 in the hospital of Meppel, as a result of a car crash. He had a wife and four children.