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Petrus Theodorus 'Piet' van Wijngaerdt
Amsterdam 1873-1964 Abcoude
A landscape with a flag, oil on canvas 59,2 x 75,3 cm., signed l.r. and painted circa 1917

Annotatie: verso: ''Landschap met vlag', Piet van Wijngaerdt'
Literature: C. Aaftink, 'Piet van Wijngaerdt in Kortenhoef', Nederhorst den Berg 2003, pag. 37; Francisca van Vloten, 'Nieuw licht! Jan Toorop en de Domburgsch Tentoonstellingen 1911-1921', Deventer 2011, pag. 144 (met afb. in kleur pag. 145).

The Amsterdam painter Piet van Wijngaerdt, together with Henri Le Fauconnier, is regarded as the theorist founder of the Bergen School. He painted landscapes, figures and powerful still lifes in a Cubist-Expressionist style, in which unexpected colour contrasts and the effects of light and shade were important means of expression. For his flowers he chose distinctive forms like amaryllis, lily and gladioli. For his landscapes he drew inspiration from the farmlands to the south of Amsterdam. After 1941 he worked mainly in and around Abcoude.