Early Life and Artistic Training Bart Jonkers was born on 20 maart 1920 in Utrecht. His early years were spent working as a house-painter, a trade that kept his hands busy with the practicalities of color and surface. This period of manual labor preceded a shift toward formal study. He eventually attended the Artibus academy of art in Utrecht, where he began to refine his technical skills and develop his own way of seeing. The course of his life was interrupted by the onset of World War II. During the conflict, Jonkers was forced to work in Germany. This period of forced labor took him away…