Cor de Wolffartist • painterMiddelburg 1889-1963 Amsterdam

The painter-graphic artist Cor de Wolff began his artistic career as a craftsman - in particular as a maker of batiks and woodcuts - and only started painting at a later age. He expressed his hunger for movement and colour in vital paintings full of fantasy, populated by wonderfully formed figures, exuberant in their gestures and painted in bright, smoothly applied colours. Pubs, folk fun, funfairs and markets were his favourite subjects. There is something cheerful and caricature at the same time in his paintings. 'I would prefer to go out with a puppet show to show citizens, farmers and country people how strange and how entertaining life is,' he once said. He shows that in his art. Cor de Wolff traveled a lot and lived for a long time in England, Belgium and Paris.