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5 unusual facts about Pyke Koch


Eugène Peters

Many creatures in his paintings seem nevertheless to have stepped straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch landscape, while he has also drawn inspiration from artists such as Pieter Breughel the Elder and, to take a more contemporary example, Pyke Koch.

Pyke Koch

He was very much inspired by painters of the Italian quattrocento, most notably the work of Piero della Francesca.

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He was most impressed with the painters of the Italian Renaissance Piero della Francesca, Masaccio and Mantegna.

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During his student days he played with a student gypsy band called Tzigane.

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Koch became a member of Verdinaso but renounced it when it merged with the Dutch Nazi party NSB.



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