Rookmaaker, H. R. (Hendrik Roelof), 1922-1977 (Personal Name)

Author's Synthetist art theories, 1959.

Wikipedia, November 4, 2016 (Hans Rookmaaker; Henderik Roelof "Hans" Rookmaaker (February 27, 1922-March 13, 1977) was a Dutch Christian scholar, professor, and author who wrote and lectured on art theory, art history, music, philosophy, and religion; following a doctorate in art history with a dissertation on Gauguin at the University of Amsterdam, he became the founder of the art history department at the Free University in Amsterdam; throughout his career, he lectured in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, as well as in his native Netherlands; he was born in The Hague, Netherlands)

Modern art and the death of a culture, 1994: back cover (H.R. Rookmaaker (1922-1977) grew up in the Dutch East Indies. In 1965, he was invited to become the chair of art history at the Free University of Amsterdam. He was also highly respected as a jazz critic)