# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthijs-roling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:17.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthijs-roling"
name: "Matthijs Röling"
slug: "matthijs-roling"
description: "Matthijs Nicolaas Röling was a Dutch painter, active as graphic designer, wall painter, painter, draftsman, lithographer, pen artist, etcher, and academy lecturer. He is considered a kindred spirit of the 3rd generation of the Dutch Group of figurative abstraction. Röling is described as the \"figurehead of contemporary figurative painting in the Netherlands.\""
tagline: "Dutch painter (1943–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/WLANL_-_MicheleLovesArt_-_ING_-_Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling_-_De_Sterrenhemel_uit_Caf%C3%A9_De_Eenhoorn_%281989%29.jpg/330px-WLANL_-_MicheleLovesArt_-_ING_-_Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling_-_De_Sterrenhemel_uit_Caf%C3%A9_De_Eenhoorn_%281989%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-03-31"
deathDate: "2024-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.752413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10059192/"
    handle:    "nm10059192"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling"
    title: "Matthijs Röling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling"
    title: "Matthijs Röling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling"
    title: "Matthijs Röling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zea.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_R%C3%B6ling"
    title: "Matthijs Röling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations