Dolf Breetvelt artwork • painting • for sale Abstract
Dolf Breetvelt
Delft 1892-1975 Amstelveen
1892-1975
Abstract
oil on canvas 50.3 x 60.3 cm, signed l.r. and on the stretcher and to be dated end 1940's
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 5,800
Provenance: Kunsthandel Borzo, 's-Hertogenbosch, inv.nr. D 325; part. coll. Nederland.
Literature: 'Cahier des Réalités Nouvelles' 4 (1950), afb. pag. 75; tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 2024, pag. 47 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Parijs, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 'Réalités Nouvelles: 5ème salon', 10 juni-15 juli 1950; Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 8 juni-31 aug. 2024.
Dolf Breetvelt was originally a painter, who discovered sculpture in later life. He was educated at the Hague Academy and left for Java in 1920 as a drawing teacher. Until his return in 1937, his style changed from realistic (New Objectivity) to surrealistic expressionism. In 1949 he joined the artists' group Vrij Beelden, which included Willy Boers, Eugène Brands and Piet Ouborg. In 1951 Breetvelt started making plastics. Initially made of wood and strongly inspired by the sculpture of natural peoples, then also from other materials such as iron and concrete.
© Simonis & Buunk
