Anton Koster artwork • painting • previously for sale Bulbfields
Anton Koster
Terneuzen 1859-1937 Haarlem
1859-1937
Bulbfields
oil on canvas 44.7 x 59.3 cm, signed l.l. and with stamp on a label on the stretcher
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Floor de Graaf, 'Anton L. Koster (1859-1937). Schilder van bloembollenvelden', Zwolle 2017, pag. 93, pag. 99, afb. 102 (in kleur); Werner van den Belt, Bob Hardus, 'De schilders van de Duin- en Bollenstreek', Zwolle 2021, afb. in kleur pag. 146.
Exhibited: Lisse, Museum De Zwarte Tulp, 'Naar de bollen. Anton L. Koster, schilder van bollenvelden', 16 sept. 2017-29 april 2018.
The landscape artist Anton Koster was born in Zeeland. In 1880 he settled for a time in The Hague, where he trained in painting at the city’s academy of art. He then embarked on a two-year study trip to the Pyrenees. The sense of warm, vibrant colours he encountered there was practically translated into his work after 1902, when he moved permanently to Haarlem and then settled in nearby Heemstede to concentrate on painting the bulb fields. Even to this day he is still one of the most gifted exponents of the genre.
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