Peter Struycken

Peter Struycken
Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau
Struycken in 1992
Born (1939-01-05) 5 January 1939
NationalityDutch
EducationRoyal Academy of Art

Peter Struycken (born 5 January 1939) is a Dutch artist. The painter, computer artist and sculptor won the 2012 Heineken Prize for Arts from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1984.

Struycken went to the Haagsche Lyceum and studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague from 1957 to 1962. In 1964, he became a teacher at Hogeschool voor de kunsten Arnhem. He is the brother of actor Carel Struycken.