Derk Wiggers artwork • painting • previously for sale Birch road
Derk Wiggers
Amersfoort 1866-1933 Den Haag
1866-1933
Birch road
oil on canvas 40.8 x 80.7 cm, signed l.l. and on stretcher and dated on the reverse 1903
This painting was previously for sale.
Derk Wiggers was a notary's clerk before he chose to become an artist. In addition to an evening course at the Rotterdam academy, he then trained himself. Wiggers painted, watercoloured, drew and etched landscapes, especially panoramas of the major rivers, but also still lifes and farmyards. The artist lived and worked in the Gooi, on the Veluwe, in Berg en Dal near Nijmegen (1902-1917) and in The Hague. He also made foreign trips to Belgium, France, Spain and Italy. Wiggers was a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam and Pulchri Studio in The Hague, and he regularly submitted his work to exhibitions from 1855 onwards.