Jan Wiegers artwork • painting • for sale The Gelderse kade, Amsterdam
Jan Wiegers
Kommerzijl 1893-1959 Amsterdam
1893-1959
The Gelderse kade, Amsterdam
oil on canvas 70.2 x 54.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated '35
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 78,000
Provenance: rechtstreeks gekocht van de kunstenaar door de ouders van de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: Jessica Voeten, 'Een heel aparte kijk op Amsterdam', 'Ons Amsterdam', sept. 2013, pag. 46 en 47 (met afb. in kleur pag. 46).
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.
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