Johannes Josephus Aarts,

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Johan Aarts, August 18, 1871 – October 19, 1934, was a Dutch painter, printmaker, illustrator, engraver, etcher, sculptor, and teacher. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where he later taught, and spent the latter part of his career in Amsterdam as professor of graphic arts at the Royal Academy.

Aarts began his career as a painter but became one of the leading figures in the revival of original graphic art in the Netherlands. His work includes landscapes, rural life, laborers, fishermen, beggars, and symbolic subjects, executed in oil, watercolor, engraving, etching, woodcut, and other printmaking techniques. During the 1920s he increasingly explored visionary and apocalyptic themes while continuing to produce landscapes and figure studies.

As an artist and educator, Aarts played an important role in the development of Dutch graphic art during the early twentieth century. His work is represented in major Dutch museum collections, including the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Rijksmuseum, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and Leiden University Library.

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