Albert Muis (22 October 1914 in Baarn – 24 September 1988) is an artist from the Netherlands. Biography He was born to a Protestant family in Baarn, a town in central Netherlands, the youngest of three children and the only boy. He became interested in painting and music around the age of seven. Encouraged by his father, Chief Accountant of a gas factory, he took lessons in drawing and music. As a teenager, he served in several chamber music ensembles and became first violinist in a regional orchestra. After leaving secondary school in Hilversum, Muis was irresistibly attracted to painting when he abandoned music. In 1931, he joined an art school in Amsterdam. He was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in July 1934. He studied drawing and painting until 1935. He took classes in drawing and painting until 1935. In 1935, he made his first trip to France. He came back overwhelmed by the harsh beauty of Breton landscapes. Late in 1935, he moved to Amsterdam, where he took courses in Monumental Art tutored by Professor Campendonck and specialized in the techniques of wall painting (1935–1938). In 1937 he made a lengthy trip to Italy. He visited Florence, Venice, Pompeï and was enthralled by Giotto's works. Back in the Netherlands he completed his first mural painting, a state commission for the Dutch Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. In 1939, he worked with architects for the Tuyen Luchtvaart Laboratorium in Amsterdam. He also focused on easel painting in his studio in Amstel, 17 in Amsterdam. He made his first exhibition in Amsterdam (gouache, oil on wood) at Galerie Robert, Amsterdam in May 1940. In June 1942, he participated in an exhibition of young avant-garde painters in Amsterdam, a demonstration which was forcibly condemned by the Nazis. After the war, in 1946, he married Hanna Deppe, of Swiss origin Switzerland. Their daughter was born in Amsterdam in 1947. He exhibited in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1946 and in 1947 at Galerie De Boer in Amsterdam. In 1948, he participated in a group exhibition in Rotterdam and in the same year, painted three frescoes ("The Mourners") in the entrance hall of the Oosterbegraafplaats [2] (cemetery in Amsterdam), commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam. In 1949, he participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited in Amsterdam, Groningen and Rotterdam. But meanwhile, Albert Muis had settled in France. During