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Henderik Roelof "Hans" Rookmaaker (February 27, 1922–March 13, 1977) was a Dutch Christian scholar, professor, and author who wrote and lectured on art theory, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. In 1948 he met Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer and became a member of L'Abri in Switzerland. Hans and his wife Anky opened a Dutch branch of L'Abri in 1971. Following a doctorate in art history with a dissertation on Gauguin at the University of Amsterdam, he became the founder of the art history department at the Free University in Amsterdam. Rookmaaker combined his academic career with a prolific role of addressing ambiguity about art among Christians and ambiguity about faith among artists. His main thesis was laid out in his 1970 publication entitled ''Modern Art and The Death of a Culture''. Throughout his career, he lectured in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, as well as in his native Netherlands. Two books by Rookmaaker were published posthumously: ''Art Needs No Justification'' in 1978 and ''The Creative Gift : Essays on Art and the Christian Life'' in 1981. In 2003 ''The Complete Works of Hans Rookmaaker'', edited by his daughter Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, were published. == Childhood and youth == Born in The Hague, Netherlands Hans was the last born in a non-Christian family of colonizers with non-white blood, his grandmother having been half Indonesian. He was largely raised in Indonesia, but returned to Holland to join the Royal Netherlands Navy. Already as a teenager he had begun what would become an extensive collection of African-American music. As a junior officer, he began to study ship construction at Delft University prior to the start of World War II. There, prior to the war, Rookmaaker met and became engaged to Riki Spetter, who was Jewish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Rookmaaker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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