Leendert
Jurriaan Jordaan was
born in Amsterdam on 30th December, 1885. Educated at the National
Academy for Fine Arts in the Netherlands
he specialised in political cartoons and worked for
De Ware Jacob (1904-1910), De
Nederlandsche Spectator (1907-1908), De
Wereld (1911-1913), De Notenkraker
(1909-1927).
Jordaan moved to De
Groene Amsterdammer in 1928. Three years later he became
chief cartoonist on the journal. A strong opponent of Adolf
Hitler, during the Second World War his
anti-Nazi cartoons were published in an underground edition of the
journal.
In his later years Jordaan
worked for Het Parool and Vrij
Nederlan. Jordaan, who also worked as a film critic, retired
in 1961.
L.
J. Jordaan, De Groene Amsterdammer
(1940)
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