Erwin Bowien

Erwin Johannes Bowien (3 September 1899 – 3 December 1972) was a German painter and author.

[1] Bowien went to school in Berlin, attended a gymnasium and studied at the "Ecole professionelle" in Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

He lived from 1933 to 1942 as a freelance artist in Egmond aan den Hoef, North Holland, in the former home of the philosopher René Descartes.

When Princess Beatrix was born in 1938, Bowien came up with the idea of portraying children in Egmond aan den Hoef who saw the light of day in 1938.

[3] On October 20, 1976, the Erwin Bowien eV Friendship Association was founded in the German Blade Museum [de] in Solingen.