Personal Life
Ploem was born on Sumatra, then part of the Dutch East Indies, where his Dutch father was employed as a coal-mining engineer. At the age of two he returned with his parents to the Netherlands where he remained for the rest of his youth in Heerlen, a town in the south of the Netherlands. He started painting as a small boy and was educated in drawing and painting in Maastricht but after finishing high school opted to study medicine instead of art. During Ploem’s entire career painting has remained a factor in his life, even during extensive scientific work in medicine, medical research and advanced microscopy.
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