Düsseldorf excavation, around 1912 1912

Harrie Kuyten

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38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionVery good
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• Über Kunstwerk
  Harrie Kuyten was born in Utrecht. When the young Harrie Kuyten loses both parents at the age of thirteen, he goes to an orphanage. There his artistic talent is first noticed. He studied at the academy of visual arts in Antwerp. Approx. 1904-1905. Enjoyed the royal grant for 3 years.
  
  He mainly painted, drew and lithographed figures (many nudes), landscapes, cityscapes, beach and seascapes and still lifes. As a painter he is well known for the use of striking and sensitive colors.
  
  He is often counted as part of the Bergen school. While he was much more autonomous.
  Jan Juffermans' monograph states the following:
  "A spirited man with an open character, a freebooter, an independent figure, practical and alert enough to earn a good living, even in the very difficult crisis years with painting, his greatest love, for his family and himself. In the land of Van Gogh, where in many eyes all hunger, self-punishment and frustration can lead to the very highest artistic expressions, a painter with such an attitude is soon viewed with suspicion, and Kuyten's uncomplicated way of painting, his playful choice of subjects and his often vivacious color scheme certainly stood in the way of a more general recognition of his work.
  
  In Harrie Kuyten's monograph by Jan Juffermas, page 27 shows an image of a sand quarry in Düsseldorf, 1912. This work is closely related to this image. That is why I also place this work around this time as being a sand excavation there.
  
  Sources: de rode Scheen, Lexicon Dutch Visual Artists, 1750-1950: Harrie Kuyten by Jan Juffermans.
  
  
• Über Künstler
  Harrie Kuyten (1983, Utrecht - 1952, Schoorl), vollständiger Name Henricus Johannes Kuyten, war ein niederländischer Künstler. Er war Kupferstecher, Lithograf, Holzfäller, Zeichner und Maler. Er studierte an der Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerpen (1904-1905). Er wurde von den Impressionisten und den französischen Fauvisten beeinflusst. Kuyten gehört zur Bergense-Schule. Er erhielt drei Jahre lang ein königliches Stipendium. Er malte Hafenansichten, Landschaften, Stadtlandschaften, Tiere, Stillleben, Innenräume, Selbstporträts, Akte. Nachdem er durch mehrere Länder gereist war, ließ er sich 1914 in Amsterdam nieder. Später, nachdem er in Österreich, Ungarn und Paris geblieben war, ließ er sich in Schoorl nieder. Er war Mitglied von Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, und der Onafhankelijken (Independents), Amsterdam. Werke von seiner Hand befinden sich unter anderem im Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (N.-H.).