Piet van Wijngaerdt artwork • painting • for sale Houses and red barn
Piet van Wijngaerdt
Amsterdam 1873-1964 Abcoude
1873-1964
Houses and red barn
oil on canvas 51.5 x 58.2 cm, signed l.l. and painted circa 1915
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 16,500
Provenance: coll. Werners-Sandbergen, Museum Pension (later Museum Hotel), P.C. Hooftstraat, Amsterdam, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: Renée Smithuis, 'Piet van Wijngaerdt (1873-1964). Grondlegger van de Bergense School', Zwolle 2018, pag. 48/49 afb. 36 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Alkmaar, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 'Piet van Wijngaerdt. Grondlegger van de Bergense School', 24 nov. 2018-12 mei 2019; Nunspeet, Noord-Veluws Museum, 'Frans Huysmans en de Bergense School', 14 jan.-25 juni 2023.
The Amsterdam painter Piet van Wijngaerdt is regarded, together with Henri Le Fauconnier, as the theorist founder of the Bergen School. He painted landscapes, figures and powerful still lifes in a Cubist-Expressionist style, in which unexpected colour contrasts and the effects of light and shade were important means of expression. For his flowers he chose distinctive forms like amaryllis, lily and gladiolus. For his landscapes he drew inspiration from the farmlands to the south of Amsterdam. After 1941 he worked mainly in and around Abcoude.
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