Theo Bitter artwork • painting • previously for sale 'Oude Delft'
Theo Bitter
Den Haag 1916-1994
1916-1994
'Oude Delft'
oil on painter's board 45.5 x 54.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated '44
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kunsthandel P.O. van der Leer, Den Haag.
Theo Bitter was a versatile artist. He painted, made watercolours, drawings, stage sets for the Hague Comedy theatre, murals and mosaics. He was also a co-founder and active member of The Hague’s post-war painters’ group Verve and later of Fugare (1960-67), to which the painters Jan van Heel, Willem Hussem and Jaap Nanninga belonged. After training at The Hague Academy of Art, Bitter initially painted in a naïve realist style. After a brief period of abstraction, from the fifties on he turned to painting in a lyrical realist manner.
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