subsequent Delta works were a part of his country’s
collective memory.
StijnVanDeVyver
Seealso:Photography in France
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 August 1909. Asso-
ciated with Polygoon agency 1930–1939; co-founds Particam
Pictures and The Netherlands Association of Press Photo-
graphers, 1945; co-editor ofDe Fotojournalist, 1945–1946;
goes into independent business, 1956; teacher of photogra-
phy at the Utrecht School of Graphics, 1958–1959. Receives
Capri-Lux Prize, 1982: receives oeuvre prize from the Foun-
dation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, 1986. Mem-
ber of the board of the GKf-fotografen, 1956–1960. Died in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 31 October 2001.
Individual Exhibitions
1964 Bilder ohne Worte; Staatliche Landesbildstelle, Ham-
burg, Germany
1972 Bibliothe`que nationale de France, Paris, France
1973 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986 Retrospective Aart Klein; De Beyerd; Breda, The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions
1948 Foto 48;StedelijkMuseum;Amsterdam,TheNether-
lands
1953 Post-War European Photography; Museum of Modern
Art; New York, New York
1954 Subjective Fotografie II; Staatlichen Schule fu ̈r Kunst
und Handwerk (State Art and Crafts School); Saar-
bru ̈cken, Germany
1975 The Land: 20th Century Landscape Photographs Selected
by Bill Brandt; Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
England, and traveling
1977 Ralph Gibson, Aart Klein & Bill Brandt; Vrije Univer-
siteit; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1981 Foto in Vorm; Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
1984 Subjektive Fotografie, Images of the 50s; Museum
Folkwang; Essen, Germany, traveled to the San Fran-
cisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1995 The Illegal Camera 1940–1945; Amsterdams Historisch
Museum; Amsterdam, The Netherlands, traveled to
Aart Klein, Delta construction site Haringvlietdam, The Netherlands, 1966.
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