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Jan Dijker (1913 – 1993) Dijker studied from 1936 to 1941 at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, under the guidance of Prof Heinrich Campendonk. After World War II, he worked extensively with priest-artist Egbert Dekkers (1908-1983) from villa Hoogenhuize in Moergestel, where both had their studios. Dijker continued to live and work in this village until his death in 1993. During the reconstruction period, Jan Dijker made a lot of monumental art on commission: glass art, mosaics, sgraffiti and murals. He also painted free work. Dijker specialised in glass art. Initially performing his work in stained glass, he later experimented with glass appliqué, glass in concrete and glass in epoxy. He was a lecturer at the Katholieke Leergangen Tilburg from 1952 to 1979. In 1950, at the invitation of Willem Sandberg and the Royal Navy, Jan Dijker made a sea voyage on a naval ship with other artists. The art made on that trip was exhibited afterwards at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The collaboration between the artists and the navy continued and more such trips followed. Jan Dijker became president of the Dutch Association of Marine Painters, which was founded in that context.