Gerard Westermann
{{Short description|Dutch artist (1880–1971)}}
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{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{MedalBronze | 1932 Los Angeles | Watercolors
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Gerhardus "Gerard" Bernardus Josephus Westermann (25 December 1880, Leeuwarden – 3 February 1971, Amsterdam) was a Dutch artist.{{cite web |title=Gerard Westermann |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/83875 |website=RKD |access-date=23 January 2021 |language=en}} In 1932 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Horseman".{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921150 |title=Gerhard Westermann |work=Olympedia |accessdate=27 July 2020}} Westermann's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.{{cite web |title= Gerard Westermann|url=https://www.artindex.nl/lexicon/default.asp?id=6&num=0053900087054070331341837003800930506661|website=Beeldend BeNeLux Elektronisch (Lexicon) |access-date=23 January 2021}}
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- {{cite book |title=The Games of the Xth Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 |publisher=Xth Olympiade Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932 |year=1933 |pages=748–765 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410231532/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf |archivedate=10 April 2008 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite web |title=Olympic Art Competition 1932 |work=Olympic Games Museum |author=Wagner, Juergen |url=http://olympic-museum.de/art/1932.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501135344/http://www.olympic-museum.de/art/1932.htm |archivedate=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}
- {{cite journal |title=In Search of the Lost Champions of the Olympic Art Contests |last=Kramer |first=Bernhard |journal=Journal of Olympic History |volume=12 |issue=2 |date=May 2004 |pages=29–34 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv12n2/johv12n2m.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410082301/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv12n2/johv12n2m.pdf |archivedate=10 April 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=30 May 2016 }}
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/gerard-westermann-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204001801/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/gerard-westermann-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 December 2013 |title=Gerard Westermann |accessdate=29 May 2016 }}
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Category:Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions
Category:Artists from Leeuwarden
Category:20th-century Dutch painters
Category:Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic competitors in art competitions
Category:20th-century Dutch male artists
Category:Academic staff of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
Category:Alumni of Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
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