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Hendrik Werkman artwork • prints & multiples • previously for sale Calendar 1944

Hendrik Werkman

Calendar 1944
stencil and stamp on paper 32.0 x 24.5 cm, printed in 1943

Provenance: coll. F.R.A. Henkels, Heerenveen; Margaret H. Froelicher, New York.
Literature: J. Martinet (red.), 'Hot Printing. Catalogus van druksels en voorlopige catalogi van gebruiksdrukwerk, litho's, etsen, houtsneden, tiksels en schilderijen van Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman', Stichting H.N. Werkman/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1963, pag. 170, cat.nr. 43-g11; Dieuwertje Dekkers, Jikke van der Spek, Anneke de Vries, 'H.N. Werkman. Het complete oeuvre', Rotterdam 2008, pag. 282, cat.nr. G-240 (met afb. in kleur van een ander exemplaar).

As an innovative typographer, the painter and printer Hendrik Werkman from Groningen occupies a special place in Dutch graphic art. He established his printing business in 1909 and came in contact with the artists from Groningen's De Ploeg collective in 1918 when he was asked to print the group's by-laws. He joined them in 1919, printed the first Ploeg catalogue and designed many other publications. His paintings differ from those of the other Ploeg members because he depicted nature based on his imagination as opposed to directly from reality. After 1923, he devoted himself to experimental typographic compositions on paper, which he called 'printed things' and which testify to tremendous originality in his use of traditional printing tools.


Hendrik Werkman | At the grave of the unknown Dutch soldier (sonnet by Martinus Nijhoff), stencil print on paper, 24.3 x 18.9 cm, dated April 1942

Hendrik Werkman

painting • for sale

At the grave of the unknown Dutch soldier (sonnet by Martinus Nijhoff)

Hendrik Werkman | De Blauwe Schuit: A muscovite Legend, stencil print on paper, 29.1 x 21.9 cm, dated august 1941

Hendrik Werkman

painting • for sale

De Blauwe Schuit: A muscovite Legend

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: 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: 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


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