Otto B. de Kat

Otto Boudewijn de Kat (7 June 1907 in Dordrecht – 30 April 1995 in Laren), was a Dutch painter and art critic.

He was born in Dordrecht, but received his training in Haarlem as a pupil of Henri Frédéric Boot and Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.

de Kat's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

After the war, he and Kees Verwey founded the Hollandse Aquarellistenkring [nl] and De Kat remained its chairman until after 1965.

He moved to Bloemendaal and became a good friend of Godfried Bomans, helping him found the Teisterbant club.

[1] He was an art critic for the newspaper Haarlems Dagblad in the years 1951–1955 and wrote for Het Vrije Volk.

The couple spent a lot of time in their second house in France, an inspiring environment for De Kat.

Otto B. de Kat: het late werk: schilderijen en aquarellen 1978-1994.