Herman Kruyder artwork • painting • 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 is for sale.
Price: € 33,000
Provenance: coll. echtpaar H.A.M. Stuyt-Leeuwenberg, Haarlem; kunsthandel L.H. de Bois, Haarlem; veiling Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 dec. 1998, lotnr. 261, aldaar verworven door de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: tent.cat. 'Herman Kruyder', Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum/Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum/ Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1951, cat.nr. 12; tent.cat. Laren, Singer Museum, 'Herman Kruyder 1881-1935', 1980, cat.nr. 11, afb. in kleur pag. 6; M. Hoogendonk e.a., 'Herman Kruyder (1881-1935), gedoemde scheppingen', Zwolle 1996, pag. 62, cat.nr. 2.21; Martin Bunnik, 'Kunstschilder Herman Justus Kruyder (1881-1935)', 'Heerlijk Heden. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van Heemstede en Bennebroek', 176 (2018), pag. 12 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: 'Herman Kruyder', Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, 13 dec. 1952-25 jan. 1953/Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 6 febr.-15 maart 1953/Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 21 maart-3 mei 1953; 'Herman Kruyder 1881-1935', Laren, Singer Museum, 21 juni-18 aug. 1980/Deurne, Museum De Wieger, 6 sept.-19 okt. 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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