Personal
Pieck was the son of Henri Christiaan Pieck and Petronella Neijfs, and twin brother of the painter and illustrator Henri Christiaan Pieck.
Pieck married Jo van Poelvoorde (died 1983) in 1922 and the two had three children, Elsa, Anneke and Max (died 1986).
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