Pit van Looartist • painterWinsum 1905-1991 Haren

Pit van Loo did not become a painter until he was older. He studied architecture in Delft and settled in Groningen in 1931. He drew and painted in addition to his work as an architect. Around 1954 he became acquainted with the painters of the Groninger Ploeg. Jan Wiegers, in particular, taught him to look consciously and gave him advice. In the early 1960s he painted stylized landscapes and still lifes. In 1970 he decided to devote himself entirely to painting and from 1972 onwards he mainly paints photorealistic landscapes, often with themes: the farmer's ditch, the dunes, the mudflats. He usually took a photograph in advance that he used as a tool, but his work is by no means a copy of that photograph, although the white border around his later paintings suggests that. The photo is a reminder: what was it like there, what impressed him? In order to reflect his own, subjective experience of the landscape. He is mainly interested in the vastness of the landscape, the pure space, the infinity.