Dirk Filarski artwork • painting • previously for sale Little bridge in Giethoorn
Dirk Filarski
Amsterdam 1885-1964 Zeist
1885-1964
Little bridge in Giethoorn
oil on canvas 55.4 x 65.8 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Piet Boendermaker, Bergen, inv.nr. 500 (in taxatielijst 1932/'33); veiling G.Th. Bom & Zoon, Amsterdam, veiling 5, zitting 7, 26 maart 1958, lotnr. 92.
Literature: Piet Spijk, 'De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker, kunstverzamelaar in Amsterdam en Bergen', Zwolle 1997, pag. 220.
Dirk Filarski, along with Arnout Colnot, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the Bergen School. He mainly painted landscapes, which he made during his many travels around Europe and North Africa. In the Netherlands he was especially captivated by the landscape around Bergen and Giethoorn. At first Filarski used light colours but after 1910 his palette changed into browns and greens and his work became more powerful and expressionist. He also painted still lifes and flowers, broadly rendered in grey tones and brightly contrasting colours.
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