Wobbe Alkema artwork • painting • previously for sale Improvisation
Wobbe Alkema
Borger 1900-1984 Kampen
1900-1984
Improvisation
wax paint on canvas 80.3 x 47.0 cm, signed on the reverse and dated 1929 on the reverse
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: rechtstreeks verworven door de vorige eigenaar van de weduwe van de kunstenaar, Dora Alkema-Bittkow, Kampen.
Literature: Flip Bool, Ad Petersen, 'Het vroege werk van Wobbe Alkema', Den Haag 1978, pag. 10, cat.nr. S23 (met afb., als 'Kompositie met zwart fond'); H.W. van Os, 'Wobbe Alkema en de Groninger schilderkunst', Groningen 1978, pag. 53 (met afb., als 'Compositie met Rood Kruis'); tent.cat. Zwolle, Stedelijk Museum, 'Muziek! Vier eeuwen muzikale kunst', 2015, afb. in kleur pag. 43.
Exhibited: Zwolle, Stedelijk Museum, 'Muziek! Vier eeuwen muzikale kunst', 8 nov. 2015-31 jan. 2016.
Wobbe Alkema was a painter, printmaker, draughtsman, architect and designer was a member of two Groningen painting groups, De Ploeg (1924-1925, 1951) and Het Narrenschip (1951-1957). Alkema’s early work was at first geometric abstraction, influenced by work by Belgian contemporaries and Constructivist artists like Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitsky and Paul Klee. After 1945 his work reveals a greater use of diverse forms and a certain affinity with reality, as his compositions invoke references to people and their environment.
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