Matthieu Wiegman artwork • painting • previously for sale A landscape with goats
Matthieu Wiegman
Zwolle 1886-1971 Bergen (N.H.)
1886-1971
A landscape with goats
oil on canvas 77.0 x 96.5 cm, signed l.l. and dated between 1914-1916
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Piet Boendermaker, Bergen, inv.nr. 3832.
Literature: 'Catalogus van schilderijen, teekeningen en beeldhouwwerken in het Stedelijk Museum behoorend aan en in bruikleen bij de Gemeente Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1924, pag. 19, cat.nr. 180; P. van der Meer de Walcheren, ''Matthieu Wiegman tentoonstelling ', 1924, pag. 3 (met afb. en datering 1914); tent.cat. Hamburg, Duitsland, Kunstverein Hamburg, 'Europaïsche Kunst der Gegenwart. Zentenausstellung des Kunstvereins Hamburg, 1927, pag. 45, cat.nr. 254; 'Matthieu: leven en werken van de kunstschilder Matthieu Wiegman', Bergen 1986, pag. 47 (met afb. en datering 1916); Piet Spijk, 'De Bergense School en Piet Boendermaker', Zwolle 1997, pag. 245, inv.nr. 3832; Piet Spijk, 'Piet Boendermaker. Mecenas van de Bergense School', Zwolle 2015, afb. in kleur pag. 108.
Exhibited: St. Louis, Verenigde Staten, City Art Museum, 1922, cat.nr. 165; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, bruikleen Piet Boendermaker, ca. 1924; Amsterdam, Gebouw voor Beeldende Kunst (Vondelstraat 80), 'Matthieu Wiegman tentoonstelling ', juni 1924; Parijs, 'Salon D'Automne, Section Hollandaise', 1926 (als: 'Paysage'); Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, 'Europaïsche Kunst der Gegenwart. Zentenausstellung des Kunstvereins Hamburg, 1927-1928.
Matthieu Wiegman was the brother of Piet Wiegman and was a leading Dutch expressionist. After completing his training at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam he moved to Bergen in 1911 and made a name for himself as one of the pioneering artists of the Bergen School. Wiegman's main subject matter was figures, landscapes and still lifes, his compositions occasionally displaying the warm, almost ebullient tonal influence of the French painter Cézanne. Wiegman spent much of his later life in France. He also produced large-scale frescoes, mosaics and strained-glass windows, most representing religious themes.
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