Wim van der Weerd was originally an architect, working for, among others, the bureau Brinkman & v.d. Vlugt in Rotterdam. Through his work he received various commissions for monumental mosaics, reliefs and murals. Especially from the 1940s onwards, he painted many still lifes in his spare time in which his admiration for the French Cubists Picasso and Braque clearly resonates.