page_title: Leiden
section_title: The Arts
hierarchical_section_title: Leiden / Notable inhabitants / The Arts
context_page_description: Leiden is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden had a population of 123,856 in August 2017, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration with its suburbs Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten and Zoeterwoude with 206,647 inhabitants. The Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics further includes Katwijk in the agglomeration which makes the total population of the Leiden urban agglomeration 270,879, and in the larger Leiden urban area also Teylingen, Noordwijk, and Noordwijkerhout are included with in total 348,868 inhabitants. Leiden is located on the Oude Rijn, at a distance of some 20 kilometres from The Hague to its south and some 40 km from Amsterdam to its north. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes lies just to the northeast of Leiden.
  A university city since 1575, Leiden has been one of Europe's most prominent scientific centres for more than four centuries. Leiden is a typical university city, university buildings are scattered throughout the city and the many students from all over the world give the city a bustling, vivid and international atmosphere.
context_section_description: Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (ca.1462–1527) an early Dutch painter 
  Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533) a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut
  Jan van Goyen (1596–1656) a Dutch landscape painter 
  Justus van Egmont (1601–1674) a painter and tapestry designer
  Rembrandt van Rijn (1606– 1669) a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker
  Willem van de Velde the Elder (1610/11–1693) a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter 
  Frans Post (1612–1680) a Dutch Golden Age painter
  Gerard Dou (1613–1675) a Dutch Golden Age painter 
  Jan Steen (ca.1626–1679) a Dutch Golden Age genre painter 
  Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) painter of history paintings, still life, portraits and genre works 
  Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) a Dutch marine painter
  Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681) a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter 
  Jan Gaykema Jacobsz. (1798–1875) a Dutch painter, draughtsman and botanical illustrator
  Jan Elias Kikkert (1843–1925) a Dutch lithographer and watercolorist of street scenes of Leiden
  Coenraad V. Bos (1875–1955) a Dutch pianist, an accompanist to singers of lieder
  Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) a Dutch artist, founder and leader of De Stijl
  Ernst Winar (1894–1978) a Dutch actor and film director 
  Nina Foch (1924–2008) a Dutch American actress and drama teacher 
  Michel Waisvisz (1949–2008) a Dutch composer, performer, inventor of experimental electronic musical instruments and artistic director of STEIM 1981-2008
  Leoni Jansen (born 1955) a TV personality and anchor-woman, singer and stage-director 
  Daniel Reuss (born 1961) a Dutch conductor, primarily a choral conductor
  Isa Hoes (born 1967) a Dutch actress and voice actress 
  Eva Dorrepaal (born 1970) a Dutch actress 
  Armin van Buuren (born 1976) a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer 
  Carice van Houten (born 1976) a Dutch actress and singer 
  Dyro (born 1992) a Dutch DJ and Electronic dance music producer
caption: Rembrandt van Rijn, ca.1655
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