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Theodorus 'Theo' Bitter
Den Haag 1916-1994
Interior (the painter's studio), oil on canvas 120,2 x 97,9 cm., signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated Mei '47
614164/Coll.I cv

Annotatie: op spieraam: 'Interieur met uitzicht'
Provenance: Victorine Hefting (oud-directeur Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag); bruikleen aan de dichter Gerrit Achterberg, Leusden; coll. Bert Bakker, Amsterdam.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Eerste tentoonstelling Haagse kunstenaars', 1947, cat.nr. 18.

Price band: between 25.000 and 50.000 euro

Theo Bitter was a versatile artist. He painted, made watercolours, drawings, stage sets for the Hague Comedy theatre, murals and mosaics. He was also a co-founder and active member of The Hague’s post-war painters’ group Verve and later of Fugare (1960-67), to which the painters Jan van Heel, Willem Hussem and Jaap Nanninga belonged. After training at The Hague Academy of Art, Bitter initially painted in a naïve realist style. After a brief period of abstraction, from the fifties on he turned to painting in a lyrical realist manner.