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Marius Richters artwork • painting • previously for sale Streetcars near the Beursplein, Rotterdam

Marius Richters

Streetcars near the Beursplein, Rotterdam
oil on canvas 70.0 x 110.2 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1913

This painting was previously for sale.

Provenance: familie Van Nes-Richters.
Literature: Liesbeth van der Zeeuw, 'Marius Richters Rotterdam, schilder en glazenier (1878-1955)', Bussum 2005, pag. 23, afb. 19 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Rotterdam, Historisch Museum Rotterdam, Het Schielandhuis, 'Marius Richters Rotterdam, schilder en glazenier (1878-1955), 24 sept. 2005-22 jan. 2006.

Marius Richters is seen as a true Rotterdam painter. He derived his motifs mainly from the docks, painting the polders around the port, and was one of the founding members of the Rotterdam avant-garde group ‘De Branding’. His dockyard workers, labourers unloading coal and grain, the shipbuilders, all have a powerful sense of drama to them. The same can be said of his landscapes: endless sweeping vistas under a bright blue sky, or with the sun breaking through – an occasional tree moved by the wind. Even in these landscapes there is always much hard work going on and the suggestion of one endless windswept space is heightened by the insignificance of the figures working in it. For Richters a painting was the embodiment of restrained control. Along with Jan Sluijters, George Hoogerwaard, Huib Luns and Johan Thorn Prikker, he made the famous wall paintings (1918-1919) in the Council Chamber of Rotterdam town hall.


Marius Richters | Still life with fish, oil on canvas, 65.8 x 99.2 cm, signed l.l.

Marius Richters

painting • for sale

Still life with fish

Marius Richters | Streetcars near the Beursplein, Rotterdam, oil on canvas, 70.0 x 110.2 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1913

Marius Richters

painting • for sale

Streetcars near the Beursplein, Rotterdam


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