Jan Riske (born 1932 in Dordrecht died 2023) was a Dutch painter.

Jan Hendrik Riske went to a private Montessori school and was encouraged to draw by his father. Riske was noticed by Laurens J. Bol, director of the Dordrechts Museum. With the financial support from the Ary Scheffer Fund, obtained through the influence of Bol, Riske was able to study at the Art Academy in Rotterdam.[1]

After his studies at the art academy in Rotterdam he emigrated to Australia in 1952.

His work was on exposition at the Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and galleries in Amsterdam, New York, Sydney and Melbourne.

These museums have works of Jan Riske on display:

Later on he was diagnosed with cancer but miraculously survived. Until at the age of 90 he was diagnosed with cancer again and died on the 16th of October 2023.

References

  1. ↑ "Dordrechts Museum". Archived from the original on 2019-01-10. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
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