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No more reporter of reality
The word 'expressionism' is used for innovative, anti-impressionist tendencies in the visual arts in Western Europe, starting around 1905. In Germany, France, Belgium and Austria, groups of like-minded artists arose who wanted to express reality instead of painting. indicate their own feelings towards their topic. For their visual language they made use of the expressive power of color and the free interpretation of forms. The earliest manifestation of expressionism takes place in Germany with the groups Die Brücke (Dresden, 1905-1913) and Der Blaue Reiter (Munich, 1911-1914), and in France with the Fauvists. Especially in Germany, the bond with reality sometimes fades to such an extent that it virtually disappears.

Expressionism in the Netherlands: De Ploeg and the Bergense School
Expressionism expresses itself in different ways in our country. As a real group we can only mention the Groninger Ploeg, in which the same spiritual unity prevailed as in the aforementioned German avant-garde groups. Bright, exuberant colors and a bold transformation of nature are the characteristic style elements of painters such as Johan Dijkstra, Jan Wiegers and Jan Altink in the heyday of De Ploeg from 1920 onwards.
The Bergen School (1915-1925) is usually also classified as expressionism, although this was more about a collection of individual artists who were active in Amsterdam and Bergen in turn and who had unanimous ideas. Their landscapes and still lifes are usually characterized by simple shapes and surfaces, a solid brushstroke and a color with a lot of browns, greens and ochres. For painters such as Arnout Colnot, Dirk Filarski, Harrie Kuijten, Piet van Wijngaerdt, Matthieu and Piet Wiegman and for a short time Leo Gestel, the French cubists, Cézanne and the painter Henri Le Fauconnier, who lived in the Netherlands from 1914 onwards, served as a source of inspiration. Painters such as Gustave de Smet who emigrated to the Netherlands in the First World War also influenced Dutch expressionism.

From now on it is about emotion
In addition, expressionism in the Netherlands from 1914 onwards mainly shows a diverse picture of individual artists who process expressionist impulses into a strictly personal style in which color and form express a strong perception of emotions. Some artists tried to depict a deeper, (spiritual) reality in their work, often making use of ideas from the worlds of theosophy and anthroposophy, such as Jacoba van Heemskerck, Else Berg, Mommie Schwarz and the early Charley Toorop. Others go their own independent course in reasonable isolation, with work with a strong emotional charge that reflects the feelings of the artist. Such as Herman Kruyder, Hendrik Chabot, Hendrik Wiegersma and Herman Gouwe.

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Ewoud de Kat | Wedding couple in Zeeland costume, oil on canvas, 60.3 x 60.6 cm, signed l.r.

Ewoud de Kat

painting • for sale

Wedding couple in Zeeland costume

Jan van der Leest | Flower garden, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 60.2 cm, signed l.r.

Jan van der Leest

painting • for sale

Flower garden

Piet van Wijngaerdt | Winter at Abcoude, oil on canvas, 70.5 x 80.3 cm, signed l.l. and dated '56

Piet van Wijngaerdt

painting • for sale

Winter at Abcoude

Erasmus Bernhard von Dülmen Krumpelmann | Take a dip in the 'Drentse Aa', oil on canvas laid down on panel, 76.0 x 60.0 cm, signed l.r.

Erasmus Bernhard von Dülmen Krumpelmann

painting • for sale

Take a dip in the 'Drentse Aa'

Johan Dijkstra | Female nude, chalk on paper, 51.3 x 31.1 cm, signed l.r.

Johan Dijkstra

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Female nude

Hendrik Werkman | De Blauwe Schuit: Ein Gebet wider den Türken (Prayer against the Turks), stencil print on paper, 25.6 x 20.6 cm, executed in 1943

Hendrik Werkman

painting • for sale

De Blauwe Schuit: Ein Gebet wider den Türken (Prayer against the Turks)

Hendrik Werkman | De Blauwe Schuit: Ascensus ad infernos, stencil print on paper, 23.5 x 18.6 cm, printed in 1942

Hendrik Werkman

painting • for sale

De Blauwe Schuit: Ascensus ad infernos

Hendrik Werkman | De Blauwe Schuit: Prayer for peace, stencil print on paper, 29.2 x 22.0 cm, dated May 1943

Hendrik Werkman

painting • for sale

De Blauwe Schuit: Prayer for peace

Harrie Kuijten | A farm in the snow (probably in Groet), oil on canvas, 40.0 x 60.2 cm, signed l.r. and dated on the stretcher 1942

Harrie Kuijten

painting • for sale

A farm in the snow (probably in Groet)

Jannes de Vries | Vulcanic landscape, Tenerife, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 100.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1977

Jannes de Vries

painting • for sale

Vulcanic landscape, Tenerife

Jan Altink |  Field with hay shards ca 1928: on the reverse: Storm on the Paterswoldse lake ('45), oil on canvas, 60.0 x 80.2 cm, signed on the reverse and painted ca. 1928

Jan Altink

painting • for sale

Field with hay shards ca 1928: on the reverse: Storm on the Paterswoldse lake ('45)

Johan Dijkstra | Bean pickers; on the reverse: Portrait of the actress Charlotte Köhler, oil on canvas, 65.3 x 85.2 cm, signed on the reverse

Johan Dijkstra

painting • for sale

Bean pickers; on the reverse: Portrait of the actress Charlotte Köhler

Siep van den Berg | Country road between wheat fields, Zuidlaren, oil on canvas, 50.2 x 70.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated '44

Siep van den Berg

painting • for sale

Country road between wheat fields, Zuidlaren

Jan Altink | Horseman in Essen, watercolour on paper, 59.5 x 45.7 cm, signed l.r.

Jan Altink

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Horseman in Essen

Johan Dijkstra | Farmhouse on the Paddepoelsterweg near Wierumerschouw; on the reverse: Farm on a countryroad, oil on canvas, 52.4 x 66.0 cm, painted ca. 1930

Johan Dijkstra

painting • for sale

Farmhouse on the Paddepoelsterweg near Wierumerschouw; on the reverse: Farm on a countryroad

Otto van Rees | North African woman, oil on canvas, 65.7 x 54.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '35

Otto van Rees

painting • for sale

North African woman

Dirk Filarski | South European landscape, oil on canvas, 45.6 x 54.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated '49

Dirk Filarski

painting • for sale

South European landscape

Dirk Filarski | Chernex, Switzerland, oil on canvas, 58.7 x 42.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 'Chernex' '12

Dirk Filarski

painting • for sale

Chernex, Switzerland

Jan Kruysen | Farms, oil on painter's board, 44.3 x 59.2 cm

Jan Kruysen

painting • for sale

Farms

Jan Altink | Landscape in the Haute Savoie, oil on canvas, 50.4 x 60.4 cm, signed l.r. and dated '55

Jan Altink

painting • for sale

Landscape in the Haute Savoie

Jan van der Baan | Seated nude, oil on board, 70.1 x 50.1 cm, signed l.l.

Jan van der Baan

painting • for sale

Seated nude

Jan van der Baan | At the Wadden islands, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 80.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated '62

Jan van der Baan

painting • for sale

At the Wadden islands

Frederick Bedrich Serger | Terrace near the sea, oil on board, 39.6 x 44.6 cm, signed l.r.

Frederick Bedrich Serger

painting • for sale

Terrace near the sea

Otto Dix | Self portrait, woodcut, 20.8 x 14.3 cm, executed in 1960

Otto Dix

prints & multiples • for sale

Self portrait

Gustave de Smet | Landscape with a church, oil on canvas laid down on panel, 69.4 x 84.4 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1904

Gustave de Smet

painting • for sale

Landscape with a church

Dirk Filarski | Still life with daisies and sunflowers, oil on canvas, 60.2 x 50.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1934

Dirk Filarski

painting • for sale

Still life with daisies and sunflowers

Arnout Colnot | Polder landscape, oil on panel, 24.5 x 30.1 cm, signed l.l.

Arnout Colnot

painting • for sale

Polder landscape

Harrie Kuijten | Landscape, Loenen aan de Vecht, oil on canvas, 66.4 x 54.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1927-1936

Harrie Kuijten

painting • for sale

Landscape, Loenen aan de Vecht


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