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Leck, Bart (Anthonij) van der
(b Utrecht, 26 Nov 1876; d Blaricum, 13 Nov 1958). Dutch painter and designer. He served his apprenticeship in several stained-glass studios in Utrecht (1891–9), after which he received a scholarship to study at the Nationaal school voor Kunstnijverheid, Amsterdam (1900–04). At the same time he attended evening classes at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, under August Allebé. His earliest work reflected several stylistic sources. His paintings were influenced first by the Symbolists Anton Derkinderen and Jan Toorop and then by the Amsterdam Impressionists George Hendrik Breitner and Isaac Israëls, while his designs for a collector’s edition of the Song of Solomon, which he produced in 1905 in collaboration with his close friend, the architect and furniture maker Piet Klaarhamer, showed an Egyptian influence. Following a brief and uninfluential visit to Paris in 1907, van der Leck spent the next nine years moving between Amsterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort, The Hague and the province of Overijssel.
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