Jan Gratama

Jan Gratama, was a Dutch architect.

Biography

He was born in Groningen and was the younger brother of the artist and museum director Gerrit David Gratama. His sister Lina Gratama was a painter He studied at the Polytechnical [School of Delft] and became an amateur portrait artist like his older brother. He was an artistic advisor to his sister Lina, who also became a portrait artist, and became known for her copies of the works in the Mauritshuis and the Gemeentemuseum [Den Haag].
In 1908 he established an architecture bureau in Amsterdam, where he worked with Berlage and others in the style of the Amsterdam School. His partners in his architect bureau were Gerrit [Versteeg (urban architect)|Gerrit Versteeg] from 1914 and Jan Willem Dinger from 1930, who continued the bureau after Gratama died in 1947.