Eduard Hellendoorn

Eduard Carel Frederik Hellendoorn was a painter and Dutch resistance fighter.

Biography

Hellendoorn was born on 29 November 1912 in Amsterdam. He studied the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten . In 1931 Hellendoorn married Johanna Maria Drayton Lee with whom he had three children. The couple divorced in 1939. Hellendoorn's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
In 1940 Hellendoorn joined the communist artists' resistance. In 1941 he took part in the Februaristaking February strike, a protest against the persecution of Dutch Jews. He was subsequently arrested and imprisoned in the in Scheveningen.
Hellendoorn was executed on 13 March 1941 at Waalsdorpervlakte.