Leonard Pinkhof
Leonard "Leo" Jehoeda Pinkhof was a Dutch painter.
Biography
Pinkhof was born on 19 June 1898 in Amsterdam. He studied at the ' and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. His teachers included Johannes Josephus Aarts,, and Nicolaas van der Waay. He settled in Den Helder where he taught technical drawing at the Ambachtsschool. In 1927 Pinkhof married Betty Koekoek with whom he had four children. His work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Pinkhof was a member of '.In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Pinkhof lost his job because Jews were no longer allowed to work for non-Jewish institutions. Additionally, the Germans took his house and the family was forced to leave Den Helder. The family was briefly in Oudesluis, then in 1941 in Amsterdam. In 1943 they were taken to the Westerbork transit camp and then to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland where they were murdered.
Pinkhof died on 23 July 1943 at the age of 45.