Henk Chabot artwork • painting • previously for sale The presecuted
Henk Chabot
Sprang 1894-1949 Rotterdam
1894-1949
The presecuted
oil on canvas 45.6 x 64.0 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1944
This painting was previously for sale.
The fact that Hendrik Chabot lived near Rotterdam did not encourage him to paint the vital, active city life. Rather, he focused on figures, peasants and workers, and finally also on landscapes. In particular, he found inspiration in the flat polders around Bergschenhoek, where his studio was located. His landscapes, strongly set up under high, worked-out skies, express a fierce emotion towards his subject, to which color and form were added. The emphatic touch of his brushstrokes and the bright opulence of his yellow, ocher, brown and green were the means for this. What was dear to his heart was to give shape to the connection between man and nature.