Wim Gerritsen artwork • painting • previously for sale Composition
Wim Gerritsen
Arnhem 1929-2007 Rotterdam
1929-2007
Composition
oil on panel 61.4 x 45.2 cm, signed l.r. and dated '53
This painting was previously for sale.
The Arnhem painter Wim Gerritsen belongs to the generation of post-war artists who engaged in expressive shapes and colors with the representation of the subconscious. His abstract gouaches and drawings - sometimes full of wild movement - have been described as Destruction Art (absurdism). Like many other painters, Gerritsen was influenced in the 1950s by the form language (fantastic bird-human-child figures) of the Cobra painters. From there he developed his own form language. Besides oil paintings and gouaches, Wim Gerritsen also made a number of murals.
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