Lodewijk Bruckman

Lodewijk Bruckman
Lodewijk Bruckman in 1983
Born	Lodewijk Karel Bruckman (1903-08-14)14 August 1903 The Hague, Netherlands
Died	24 April 1995(1995-04-24) (aged 91) Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Education	Royal Academy of Art
Known for	Painting
Movement	Magic realism

Lodewijk Karel "Loki" Bruckman (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈloːdəˌʋɛik ˈkaːrəl ˈloːki ˈbrɵkmɑn]; 14 August 1903 – 24 April 1995) was a Dutch magic realist painter. He lived and worked in the Netherlands, the United States, and Mexico. Museum de Oude Wolden in the village of Bellingwolde has a permanent exhibition of his paintings.

Lodewijk Karel Bruckman was born on 14 August 1903 in The Hague in the Netherlands. He was the son of house painter Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1868–1952) and Wilhelmina Frederika Hamel (1869–1930). He had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom was his twin brother Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1903–1982).

Bruckman studied with his twin brother at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where he was a student of Henk Meijer. He worked first as a set painter, later as a drawing teacher, and eventually as a fine artist.

In 1949, Bruckman and his life partner Evert Zeeven, who was also his manager, moved to the United States. They lived in New York City and Provincetown in the U.S. and also in Morelia in Mexico. Bruckman had several gallery exhibitions in New York.

In 1968, they returned to the Netherlands, where they lived in Wemeldinge, Haarlem, and Bellingwedde. Bruckman stopped oil painting in 1986, but continued with pencil drawing. In 1989, they moved to Leeuwarden. Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half year later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91.