 |
Albert Cornelissen Albert Cornelissen tattooed in Rotterdam, Holland in the 1950s. His customers were mostly sailors. When the ships came in he would wait at the shore end of the gangplank and hand out a fist full of business cards. These cards would promote his tattoo shop in Katendrecht which was sometimes referred to as “Rotterdam’s Chinatown.” It is only natural that Cornelissen would be drawn to this area of town, since he came from a family of sailors and spent 20 years as a sailor himself.
Photos from the Albert Cornelissen Jr. Collection. Tattoo Archive © 2006
|
The 1960s found Albert Cornelissen and his son traveling Europe in this mobile tattoo shop pictured above. They followed the US aircraft carrier Saratoga through Spain, France, Gibraltar and Belgium while they tattooed the troops. With all that traveling Cornelissen visited many other tattooists. Cornelissen is seen below (on the right) with the Danish tattooist Ole Hansen.
