The Formative Years in The Hague and Paris Born in The Hague, Netherlands, on 27 September 1928, Cornelis Bernardus van Bohemen began his formal training at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. His education spanned the years 1943 to 1948, providing a foundation for a career that would eventually move far beyond the borders of his birth country. By the age of twenty-four, he had secured a scholarship to study in Paris, a mov…