The organization, which strives to increase municipal art ownership and presents itself as a union for artists, currently has about 2,000 members.
The Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) has an eventful history of collaborations, divestitures and mergers.
The association was based in Amsterdam, and set itself to do:... to act as a union for all visual artists, to promote the development and practice of the visual arts and to defend and promote both the common and material interests of the professional group as a whole and of the individual artist.
[2]In 1946, the BBK co-founded the established Federation of Artists' Associations,[3] initially forming by far the largest group in it.
[4] They were politically active, organizing various protest actions to call attention to the approximate social status of artists.