The lines of a life in motion Jan Thorn Prikker began his time in the world in The Hague, born to a father who worked as a house painter and amateur artist. His early years were spent within the walls of the Royal Academy of Art, where he studied from 1881 to 1887. He did not finish those studies, yet the foundations of his craft remained. In the late 1880s and early 1890s, his work took on a different shape through connections with fi…