Jan Sluijters artwork • painting • for sale View of Amsterdam
Jan Sluijters
Den Bosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
1881-1957
View of Amsterdam
oil on canvas 46.3 x 56.5 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1919
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 19,000
Jan Sluijters along with Leo Gestel and Piet Mondrian belongs to the first early modernists. He trained at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie. He then moved to Paris (1904-1907) where his introduction to the work of Van Gogh, Cézanne and the Fauves, including Gauguin, led to him developing an entirely new visual idiom. Sluijters sought to express powerful inner feelings in his work by changing visible forms and applying an exuberant, non-realistic use of colour. Landscapes only occur in his earlier work: later he had a distinct preference for still-lifes, nudes and portraits.