Paul Franciscus Kromjong (Maastricht, November 11, 1903 - Noordwijkerhout, July 24, 1978) was a Dutch painter and glassier.
Kromjong worked at the Maastricht mortgage bank and also followed painting lessons at Henri Jonas at the Middle School of Fine Arts. In 1929 he participated in the exhibition 7 Limburgsche jongeren. He then moved to Amsterdam where he went to work for the mortgage bank. In the capital he shared an atelier with his friends Henri Schoonbrood and Hub Levigne, who followed the study of monumental art at the National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1935, Kromjong moved to the headquarters of the bank in The Hague. He also wrote as a student at the First Dutch Free Studio and the evening training modeled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After the war he accepted an appointment as a lecturer of monumental design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. This feature lasted until 1969.
In the pre-war period there was a clear relationship with his teacher Henri Jonas, especially in his nudes and portraits. His landscapes showed clear influence by Constant Permeke, the Flemish expressionist. After the war he painted mainly geometric-abstract compositions and made metal collages and sculptures.
In 1936, Kromjong participated in the exhibition D.O.O.D., the Olympic under dictatorship, organized in Amsterdam in protest against the Berlin Olympic Games.
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