Lambertus Theodorus (Theo) Kurpershoek (Rotterdam, October 8, 1914 - Amsterdam, October 24, 1998); Dutch painter, graphic designer and teacher. Kurpershoek was a son of the painter Leo Kurpershoek and Hendrika Johanna Bollen Camp. He attended the Graphic School in Amsterdam, and evening classes at the Rijksakademie. He was initially a commercial artist, and later a painter. In 1939 he won the Willink van Collen Prize. He married Lucie Visser in 1947. In 1948, along with Nicolaas Wijnberg and others, Kurpershoek founded the painters' group, the Realists. He designed many editions Salamander pocket books for the Amsterdam literary publishing house Querido. He also designed several stamps, including the children's stamps from 1953 (with portraits of his own children) and a stamp on the occasion of 500 years of the States General of the Netherlands in 1964. Original cover designs and other graphic design material was donated by the Kurpershoek heirs to the Library of the University of Amsterdam. (Google translation of https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Kurpershoek) undefined

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