Frederik Engel Jeltsema, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frederik Engel Jeltsema

Dutch artist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1879

Place of Birth: Uithuizen, Groningen, Netherlands

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1971

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Frederick Engel (Fre) Jeltsema (Uithuizen, October 4, 1879 - The Hague, February 16, 1971) was a Dutch painter and sculptor. Because of a medical uncertainty at birth, Jeltsema was registered as a girl in the municipality's population registry.
This was administratively corrected in 1906. In 1892–1896 Jeltsema followed a course at the Minerva Academy in Groningen.
He then followed an initial training for drawing teacher, but opted for training as a sculptor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (1899–1902).
In 1902 he won the Dutch Prix de Rome.