Leo Jansen (30 April 1930, The Hague – 20 December 1980) was a Dutch artist known for his portraits.
Born in the Netherlands, moved to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) when he was ten. There in the tropics, he began his craft by sketching bronze-skinned Indonesian girls for leisure. He returned to the Netherlands to study at the Academy of Art, to refine his growing mastery of the female figures.
Like most continental artists, he gravitated first to Paris and... more
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