Livinus Arie Cornelis Jan van de Bundt was born 5 March 1909 in Zeist.
[5] He enrolled at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague in 1932, but left prematurely in 1934 after a number of conflicts.
[6] During World War II Livinus van de Bundt applied his graphic skills to forge passports.
[4] Livinus' secretive luminodynamical machine, built in the 1950s from lenses, bulbs and electronic components, enabled the operator to generate color effects using a keyboard.
[1] Incomplete list of extant and lost works: Van de Bundt was awarded the 1964 Sikkens Prize for his fotopeintures.