  willem arondeus (22 august 1894 &ndash; 1 july 1943) was a homosexual dutch artist and author, who joined the anti-nazi resistance movement during world war ii. ==biography== ===early life=== willem arondeus was born in naarden, as the youngest son of an amsterdam tradesman in fuels. his parents were hendrik cornelis arondeus and catharina wilhelmina de vries. he started working as an illustrator, designer of posters and tapestries and a painter. in 1923 he was commissioned to paint a large mural for rotterdam city hall. during that same period, he illustrated poems by j. h. leopold, pieter cornelis boutens and martinus nijhoff. he admired the older dutch designer richard roland holst, as can be seen in his work. he didn't attain much glory and lived in straitened circumstances. about 1935, he gave up visual arts and became an author. the poems and stories he had written in the 1920s went unpublished, but in the year 1938 he published two novels, het uilenhuis ('the owls house') and in de bloeiende ramenas ('in the blossoming winter radish'), both illustrated with designs by arondeus himself. 1939 saw the publication of his best work, matthÄ³s maris: de tragiek van den droom ('the tragedy of the dream'), a biography of the painter matthijs maris, who was a brother of the dutch artists jacob and willem maris. and two years later, figuren en problemen der monumentale schilderkunst in nederland ('figures and problems of monumental painting in the netherlands') was published, again with designs by the author. at that date, however, arondeus was already involved with the dutch resistance movement. ===resistance movement=== in the spring of 1941, he started an underground periodical in which he tried to incite his fellow artists to resist the nazi occupation of the netherlands. earlier than others, arondeus realized that the demand by the nazi occupiers that all jews register with the local authorities was not, as the nazis claimed, f
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