Career
When Lussenburg hurt his hand in 1923 an infection of a finger on his left hand ended his career as violin player and on advice of his wife he took up painting. But he never lost his love for the music and remained active as director of several choirs in villages near Nunspeet.
Many of Lussenburg's paintings show the rough waves of the shallow Zuiderzee with one or more fishing sailing boats in action. Beside his paintings of fishing vessels at sea he also painted portraits of old fishermen, farmers, beggars and some self-portraits.
In 1963 he published a book called De stervende zee (The dying sea) about the end of the fishing industry in the former Zuiderzee. Later, in 1975 a book De stervende Zuiderzee (The dying Zuiderzee) dealt with the same problem. In the books pictures of his paintings together with several stories about the life of the fishers.
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