( Adriaan Barend ) (b Haarlem, Jan 6, 1906; d Amsterdam, Jan 26, 1972). Dutch painter and sculptor. He trained from 1920 in the decorative arts department of the School voor Bouwkunde, Versierende Kunsten en Kunstambachten in Haarlem. He was self-taught as a painter. In his early work the influences of Constant, Permeke and Herman Kruyder are noticeable. He made regular trips to Paris, in the company of Piet van Egmond (1889–1965), and in 1946 he moved to Amsterdam. His discovery of the work of matter painters Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Wols and Alberto Burri led him to adopt matter painting around 1955. He had an exhibition at Galerie le Canard in Amsterdam and participated in a group exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1957. During 1958 Wagemaker stayed in Paris for four months at the Rue Santeuil, where Karel Appel, Corneille and Bram Bogart had a studio. He started to take photographs of walls, dry landscapes and strange rock formations. The titles of his reliefs and assemblages of organic and industrial waste are direct references to topographic situations, which set an imaginative process in motion. He also made scrapbooks with memorabilia from his numerous travels and produced sculptures. In ...