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Gerrit Bennerartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsman • printmakerLeeuwarden 1897-1981 Nijemirdum

biography of Gerrit Benner

The subject matter of Gerrit Benner’s paintings was nearly always the Frisian landscape with its sweeping horizons, farmhouses, dunes and cattle grazing on the land. At the same time he was not concerned with purely depicting reality, but expressing his deep admiration for this kind of nature in simple forms and using the same four or five colours. Benner was self taught and worked in the culturally fairly isolated province of Friesland until 1953, when he moved to Amsterdam. Here he was absorbed into the post-war renewal movement that dominated the city’s artistic climate at the time.


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Gerrit Benner | Man, horse and flowers, oil on canvas, 99.5 x 59.3 cm, signed on the reverse and painted ca 1959

Gerrit Benner

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Man, horse and flowers

Gerrit Benner | A woman in an interior; on the reverse: Composition, watercolour and gouache on paper, 49.5 x 65.5 cm, signed l.l.

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • for sale

A woman in an interior; on the reverse: Composition


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Gerrit Benner | Composition flowers and leaves, oil on canvas, 99.5 x 59.3 cm, signed on the reverse and painted 1959

Gerrit Benner

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Composition flowers and leaves

Gerrit Benner | Two horsemen, oil on canvas, 74.9 x 60.0 cm, signed on the reverse

Gerrit Benner

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Two horsemen

Gerrit Benner | Untitled, oil on canvas, 129.5 x 100.0 cm, signed on the reverse and painted ca. 1960

Gerrit Benner

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Untitled

Gerrit Benner | Drowned land, oil on canvas, 80.3 x 100.0 cm, painted in 1954

Gerrit Benner

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Drowned land

Gerrit Benner | Figures in the forest, acrylic on paper, 75.6 x 55.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted in 1960's

Gerrit Benner

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Figures in the forest

Gerrit Benner | Forest, oil on paper laid down on board, 56.3 x 75.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1953

Gerrit Benner

painting • previously for sale

Forest

Gerrit Benner | A Dutch polder landscape, oil on canvas, 80.0 x 100.0 cm, painted ca. 1965

Gerrit Benner

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A Dutch polder landscape

Gerrit Benner | Forest with birds, oil on canvas, 99.8 x 80.0 cm, signed reverse and painted in 1968-1969

Gerrit Benner

painting • previously for sale

Forest with birds

Gerrit Benner | Landscape in Friesland, screenprint, 41.8 x 52.8 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and executed ca. 1980

Gerrit Benner

prints & multiples • previously for sale

Landscape in Friesland

Gerrit Benner | Horseman, gouache on paper, 70.0 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated circa 1957

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Horseman

Gerrit Benner | Sealandscape, gouache on paper, 50.6 x 66.4 cm, executed ca. 1964

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sealandscape

Gerrit Benner | Sunset, watercolour and gouache on paper, 55.6 x 75.4 cm, signed l.r.

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sunset

Gerrit Benner | Kissing chicken, chalk and gouache on paper, 65.0 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r. and ca. 1965

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Kissing chicken

Gerrit Benner | Landscape, watercolour on paper, 49.7 x 64.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted 1970

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Landscape

Gerrit Benner | Sea and clouds, gouache on paper, 51.0 x 66.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1951

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sea and clouds

Gerrit Benner | Figure, gouache on paper, 50.0 x 37.1 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1956

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Figure

Gerrit Benner | Birds, New Year card, gouache on paper, 24.9 x 16.9 cm, signed l.r.

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Birds, New Year card

Gerrit Benner | Children at play, gouache on paper, 65.3 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r.

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Children at play

Gerrit Benner | Sunset, gouache on paper, 61.5 x 47.4 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1954

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Sunset

Gerrit Benner | Two birds, gouache on paper, 65.2 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated between 1956-1958

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Two birds

Gerrit Benner | A couple, gouache on paper, 50.0 x 65.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated on the reverse 1967

Gerrit Benner

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

A couple


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