'Abstract' 1966

Fred Sieger

Original oil on canvas
60 ⨯ 73 ⨯ 5 cm
ConditionVery good
€ 2.000

Willem Kerseboom Gallery

• About the artwork
  Fred Sieger
  oil on canvas, framed , signed ,dated 1966
  60x73 cm
  Fred Sieger was a Dutch painter, collagist and teacher.
  In 1948 Sieger represented Dutch painting at the Venice Biennale and in 1951 he became a teacher at the art academy in Arnhem. A few years later he took part in the first high-profile exhibition of the Informele Groep, with Armando, Jan Schoonhoven and Henk Peeters among others.
  After that Sieger went his own way. He was guided by personal discoveries and fascinations. Sieger’s definitive breakthrough did not take place in the Netherlands but in Denmark, where his elaborate paintings were highly appreciated from the early 1960s onwards. A well-known Danish critic once aptly described his work as ‘colouristic chamber music’.
  In the 1950s he married the American artist Helen White.
  He lived and worked in Arnhem and from 1965 in Zevenaar. He was a self-taught painter and taught at the Academy for Visual Arts and Applied Arts in Arnhem. In 1965 he received the cultural prize of the municipality of Arnhem.
  Work by Fred Sieger can be found in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, Museum Henriette Polak in Zutphen, Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg-Hau (D) and in many private collections at home and abroad.
• About the artist

  Fred Sieger was born in Amsterdam. He is an autodidact painter. He started his artist career at an age of 26 and had his first solo exhibition in 1941 at Van Lier in Amsterdam. In 1948 he was sent to the Venice Biennale. Around 1950 he started to paint more abstract. He was a teacher at the Kunstacademie in Arnhem and had pupils like Klaas Gubbels. He moved in 1965 to Zevenaar where he would die in 1999. In Zevenaar he experimented all kinds of material in his artworks. He produced - even at age of 90- still a lot of artworks.

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