Books by Onno Blom
Onno Blom (1969) is a writer, biographer, and columnist for de Volkskrant daily newspaper. He also works as a literary critic for national radio and presented a Dutch television series called The Riddle Rembrandt (2019). He was raised in Leiden and published several books about writers and painters from his home town. In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Dutch Biography Prize for his book on the life of the sculptor, painter and writer Jan Wolkers, which attracted controversy and became a bestseller in the Netherlands.
“What Onno Blom is really asking in this biography is, ‘How did a miller’s son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his time?’ It’s just about Rembrandt’s first years. It’s a description of Leiden, this small provincial town steeped in scriptural Protestantism.” Read more...
Sue Prideaux, Biographer
Interviews with Onno Blom
The best books on Rembrandt, recommended by Onno Blom
Though he left more self-portraits to posterity than practically any Old Master, there remains an air of mystery around Rembrandt the man—even on the 350th anniversary of his death. Piecing together the very few personal letters and documents left behind, Onno Blom has now reconstructed Rembrandt’s formative years in Young Rembrandt. Here he guides us through five of the most authoritative—and imaginative—accounts of the artist.
Interviews where books by Onno Blom were recommended
Five Biographies of Artists, recommended by Sue Prideaux
From the Baroque painter who killed a man in Rome during the Counter-Reformation to the surrealist artist who left Britain and died in Mexico City in 2011, award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux talks to us about her favorite biographies of artists. Her new biography of Paul Gauguin, Wild Thing, is out this week and has been longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize.
