Herman Kruyder artwork • painting • previously for sale A forest landscape
Herman Kruyder
Lage Vuursche 1881-1935 Amsterdam
1881-1935
A forest landscape
oil on canvas laid down on panel 121.3 x 86.0 cm, signed l.l. and painted between 1917-1918
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. E.J. Duintjer, Veendam.
Literature: tent.cat. Groningen, Groninger Museum; Keuze uit de collecties van E.J. Duintjer en G. Kraus, 1956, cat.nr. 20; tent.cat. Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 'Keuze uit de collecties van E.J. Duintjer en G. Kraus', 1957, cat.nr. 20; Laren, Singer Museum, 'Herman Kruyder 1881-1935', 1980, cat.nr. 5.
Exhibited: Groningen, Groninger Museum, 'Keuze uit de collecties van E.J. Duintjer en G. Kraus', nov.-dec. 1956.; Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 'Keuze uit de collecties van E.J. Duintjer en G. Kraus', jan. 1957; Laren, Singer Museum, 'Herman Kruyder 1881-1935', juni-aug. 1980.
Originally destined to become a house painter, Herman Kruyder developed into one of the most important representatives of expressionism in the Netherlands. He no longer painted visible reality but his inner life, and used subjects that he derived from the country life around him: the village and the people, animals and flowers. Even the portraits he painted are separate from reality and bear witness to a deep, sometimes almost tormented, inner life.
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