Peter Struycken (The Hague, the Netherlands, 1939) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. From the 1960s he has been active as a sculptor, painter, computer artist and monumental artist. He is one of the founders of the Arnhem School for environmental design. From 1964 to 1976, he directed a specially established environmental art department at the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts. He has designed environmental artworks throughout the Netherlands; in Rotterdam, among others, a walled outdoor space for the Erasmus Medical Center (now defunct) and the lighted arcade under the Nieuwe Instituut. He also contributed to discourse, was active in committees and designed related works, such as color palettes for clients. He was also successfully active in other artistic disciplines. For example, in 1981 he created the famous pixelated stamp of Queen Beatrix. Always the computer and the idea of a mathematical and external logic, is a common thread in his work.
