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Tragedy surrounded both the beginning and the end of Bas Jan Ader’s (1942-1975) short life. Bastiaan Johan Christiian, or Bas Jan, was born in Wishoten, Holland to Bastiaan Jan Ader and his wife Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels.
A minister in the Dutch Reformed church, Ader’s father was caught harboring Jewish refugees in 1944 and killed by German Nazi soldiers. Bas Jan was just two at the time and would go on to be raised with his younger brother by their widowed mother.
Following his father’s death, Bas Jan went on to develop both an early interest in art and an increasingly difficult attitude.
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He was placed at the age of 14 into a foster home and then a boarding school. Though often truant and a poor student, Ader showed enough artistic promise to be admitted to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Eventually failing out of this program, he went on to secure a student-exchange position that relocated him to Bethesda, Maryland, where he continued his studies and graduated