Lodewijk Karel Bruckman was born on 14 August 1903 in
The Hague in the
Netherlands. He was the son of
house painter Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1868–1952) and Wilhelmina Frederika Hamel (1869–1930). He had two sisters and two brothers, Bruckman studied with his twin brother at the
Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where he was a student of
Henk Meijer. He worked first as a
set painter, later as a
drawing teacher, and eventually as a fine artist. In 1949, Bruckman and his life partner Evert Zeeven, who was also his manager, moved to the United States. They lived in
New York City and
Provincetown in the U.S. and also in
Morelia in
Mexico. Bruckman had several gallery exhibitions in New York. In 1968, they returned to the Netherlands, where they lived in
Wemeldinge,
Haarlem, and
Bellingwedde. Bruckman stopped oil painting in 1986, but continued with pencil drawing. In 1989, they moved to
Leeuwarden. Zeeven died on 30 November 1993. One and a half year later, Bruckman died on 24 April 1995 in Leeuwarden, at the age of 91. ==Painting==