Herman Kruyder artwork • painting • previously for sale Nursery School, Heemstede
Herman Kruyder
Lage Vuursche 1881-1935 Amsterdam
1881-1935
Nursery School, Heemstede
oil on board 32.0 x 43.7 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1919-1923
This painting was previously for sale.
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.