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Birthdays 11.15
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Gustave Pabst (1866)
Bob Leggett (1953)
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Poul Anderson; writer (1926)
Christina Applegate; actor (1971)
Paul Desmond; jazz saxophonist (1924)
P.D. Eastman; writer (1909)
Virgil Thomson; composer (1896)
Famous Birthdays
Nat Adderley; trumpet player (1931)
Alice Ambrose; philosopher and logician (1906)
Winthrop Ames; director and screenwriter (1870)
Karl Benz; German engineer, inventor (1844)
Marc Brown; author and illustrator (1946)
Alfred Capus; French journalist, author, and playwright (1858)
Andrew Carnegie; businessman (1835)
Cris Carter; Minnesota Vikings WR (1965)
Katie Cassidy; actres (1986)
Chris Claremont; English-American author (1950)
Gail Collins; journalist and author (1945)
Kathryn Crosby; actress and singer (1933)
Maurice Denis; French painter (1870)
Bucky Dent; New York Yankess SS (1951)
Lope de Vega; Spanish playwright and poet (1562)
Joe DiMaggio; New York Yankees OF (1914)
Lars Eighner; author (1948)
Takayo Fischer; actress and singer (1932)
Jill Flint; actress (1977)
Roelof Frankot; Dutch painter and photographer (1911)
Shelagh Fraser; English actress (1920)
Mark Frost; author and screenwriter (1953)
Kate Gleason; engineer (1865)
Amy Grant; pop singer (1960)
Harley Granville-Barker; British actor and director (1877)
Franz Xaver Gruber; Austrian organist and composer (1787)
Charlaine Harris; author and poet (1951)
Jill Hennessy; Canadian actor (1968)
Stephanie Hsu; actress (1990)
Jeffrey Hunter; actor (1926)
Ilja Hurník; Czech composer and playwright (1922)
Ba Jin; Chinese writer (1904)
Albert Henry Krehbiel; painter and illustrator (1873)
John Larriquette; actor (1947)
Bob Lind; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942)
Peg Lynch; actress and screenwriter (1916)
Donovan McNabb; Philadelphia Eagles QB (1976)
Ricardo Montalban; actor (1920)
Lenny Moore; Baltimore Colts HB (1933)
Bill Morrissey; singer-songwriter (1951)
Patrick Nagel; artist, illustrator (1945)
Noel Neill; actress (1920)
Herschel Savage; porn actor (1952)
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck; English author and activist (1778)
Ernst Schröder; German mathematician (1841)
Jean-François Séguier; French astronomer and botanist (1703)
Percy Sledge; pop singer (1941)
Laurence Stallings; writer (1894)
Ben Stein; speechwriter, actor, creationist wingnut (1944)
Edward Traisman; invented Cheez Whiz, freezing process for McDonald’s fries (1915)
Woody Woodpecker; cartoon (1940)
Alexis Wright; Australian author (1950)
Takaaki Yoshimoto; Japanese poet and philosopher(1924)
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ROELOF FRANKOT
On this day of 25th November, Roelof Frankot (25 October 1911 - 1 December 1984), in Meppel, The Netherlands.
By education, he was a photographer, but in 1930, he started painting. He later had a strong relationship with the CoBrA movement.
CoBrA represents the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A). This international movement of artists who worked experimentally evolved from the criticisms of Western society and a common desire to break away from existing art movements, including "detested" naturalism and "sterile" abstraction. Experimentation was the symbol of unfettered freedom, which, was ultimately embodied by children and the expressions of children
His artworks are quite similar to some of the art from the CoBrA movement. They are very abstract and spontaneous paintings in strong colours. Oil on canvas was his preferred medium. Publications with his art were occasionally accompanied by small poems that he wrote himself. Frankot has been considered an innovator of Dutch art with all its great traditions. During his career, Frankot made a huge number of exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
Frankot died at the age of 73 from cancer.
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