A Chinese barber's shop

A Dutch artist trained in Brussels, Agerbeek was active in Java in the 1920s and 1930s, teaching drawing in secondary schools and exhibiting with the Vereeniging van Beeldende Kunstenaars in Jakarta in 1929. He lived in Surabaya in the late 1920s, and exhibited at the Kunstkringhuis, Surabaya in 1926 (see L. Haks and J. Maris, Lexikon of Foreign Artists who Visualized Indonesia (1600-1950), Utrecht, 1995, p.16).