Coen van Oven

Conrad Theodor, or Coen van Oven (September 21, 1883 – May 4, 1963), was a Dutch painter.

According to the RKD he was born in Dordrecht and in 1903 he became a member of the drawing academy in Antwerp.

[1] In 1905 he was a pupil of Roland Larij, the chairman of the drawing academy in Dordrecht (Pictura) and in 1906 he became a pupil of the German architect Adolph Meyer in Berlin for two years.

In 1913 he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed except for a short period in South Africa after the war where he visited Kimberley and Pretoria during the years 1947-1949.

[1] He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the group called De Onafhankelijken.