Nico Onkenhout

Nico Onkenhout
Born	Nicolaas Hendrik Onkenhout (1918-05-29)29 May 1918 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	5 February 1989(1989-02-05) (aged 70)
Nationality	Dutch
Notable work	Dik Trom

Nico Onkenhout (1918-1989) was a Dutch sculptor who won a silver medal at the 1947 Prix de Rome. Nico Onkenhout most famous sculpture is of Dik Trom.

Life and work

Onkenhout studied sculpture with Jan Bronner at the National Academy of Fine Arts (1937-1944) in his hometown. He went into hiding during World War II, and went into hiding in 1944 in the municipality of Kollumerland c.a. After the war he made six war memorial and one of which for the municipality of Kollumerland. In 1947 he won the silver medal of the Prix de Rome. His most famous work, a bronze statue of Dik Trom, with Trom sitting upside down on a bucking donkey, he made in 1973.

Besides sculptor, Onkenhout was active as a medalist. He made a medal on the occasion of the opening of the head office of the insurance company De Zeven Provinciën in The Hague (1960). He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and the Beroepsvereniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars (Professional Association of Visual Artists).