Kees Smout


Aloysius Cornelis Smout was a Dutch sculptor.

Life and work

Smout studied at the Rijksnormaalschool led by Willem Molkenboer and Jan Derk Huibers and then attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. There, he was a student of Ludwig Jünger, Bart van Hove and Ferdinand Leenhoff. In 1901, he won the second prize in the Dutch Prix de Rome in the sculpture category, three years later he was awarded the first prize. This enabled him to make a study trip to France and Italy.
After this he made his way back to the Netherlands and made building models, Christian religious statues, and more. Smout later taught drawing between 1901-1904 and decorative painting between 1909-1914 at the Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten in Amsterdam, modeling lessons at the Burgeravondschool in Utrecht between 1904-1905, and lessons in modeling the human figure at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague between 1914-1917. His students included Piet Spijker, Jan Kriege, and A.Th. Boon.
In 1930, he won a gold medal at the Arti exhibition. He was also a member of the Arti et Amicitiae artist association in Amsterdam and the Artists' association Sint Lucas.

Some works