Jan Wiegers artwork • painting • previously for sale A flower still life
Jan Wiegers
Kommerzijl 1893-1959 Amsterdam
1893-1959
A flower still life
oil on canvas 61.4 x 50.0 cm, signed l.r. with initials and on the reverse and dated 1956 on the reverse
This painting was previously for sale.
Jan Wiegers is one of the best known Dutch Expressionists and a founding member of the Groningen Ploeg group. Of all the painters who were members, he was the most internationally inclined. During a stay in Davos, Switzerland, from 1920 to 1922, he met the German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Thereafter his work was characterised by vibrant colours, with a free, yet powerful handling of line and form. Wiegers’s oeuvre had a huge variety of motifs, including his Swiss subject matter, Groningen landscapes, nudes, still lifes, interiors and portraits. He also produced etchings and woodcuts.
