Composition, 1949 – gouache on paper, professionally framed 1949

Willy Boers

GouachePaint
61 ⨯ 49 cm
ConditionVery good
Price on request

Van Kerkhoff Art

• About the artwork
  An original abstract gouache on paper. Painted by Willy Boers in 1949. Signed and dated (front, bottom, right). Professionally framed in a gilt wooden frame, museumglass.
  
  About Willy Boers
  Willy Boers (Amsterdam 1905 – Amsterdam 1978) was a Dutch painter, sculptor and illustrator considered to be one of the main innovators of post-war Dutch art.
  
  Willy Boers was raised in a prominent Dutch-German family and must have upset his father when he decided to become a painter instead of taking over the family insurance business. He started out restoring paintings and after which he started painting his on works.
  
  In the 1930’s he started out painting figurative works related to the then prominent style of the “Nieuwe Zakelijkheid”. in 1946, Willy Boers founded the artist movement “Vrij Beelden” with Ger Gerrits. By that time Boer’s work has become abstract. In these same years he travelled often to Paris where he gotten to know the work of the prominent French abstract painters of the “École de Paris”.
  
  In Paris he exhibited four times in the “Salon des Réalités Nouvelles”. In the Netherlands he participated in several exhibitions in the Stedelijk Museum with painters like Willem Hussem, Piet Ouborg and Jan Roëde.
  
  In 1949 Boers founded a new artist movement “Creatie”. Members were among others Anton Rooskens and Eugène Brands. Like “Vrij Beelden” the movement was dedicated to “absolute schilderkunst” meaning fully dedicated to abstract art. “Creatie” was the first artists’ association fully committed to non-figurative art. They exhibited their work at Museum Fodor in Amsterdam.
  
  In the 1960’s and 1970’s Boers experimented with geometrical abstraction, collages and matter painting and his work became increasingly influenced by the American abstract expressionists.
  
  Signatuur
  Signed and dated "Willy Boers '49", front, bottom, right
  
  Conditie
  Good original condition, some slight ondulation, professionally framed, museumglass
  
  Provenance
  Collection Frans Molenaar – Dutch Fashion designer
  
  Afmetingen
  Artwork
  Height 61 cm
  Width 49 cm
  
  Frame
  Height 76,5 cm
  Width 64 cm
  Depth 3 cm
• About the artist

  Willy Boers is a Dutch artist who was born in Amsterdam in 1905, he died in Amsterdam in 1978. He was trained as a restorer but became a self-taught painter, draughtsman and sculptor. Willy also created portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, still-lifes and abstract art. He signed his work with ‘WBoers’. He was a member of the Haagse Kunstkring until 1940 and between 1929 and 1941 he joined the art society De Onafhankelijken.

  In 1946 he established, along with Ger Gerrits, the group Vrij Beelden which included the artists Willem van Hussem, Piet Ouborg and Jan Roëde.

  In 1950 he set up the group Creatie. His work is included in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Cobra Museum in Amstelveen.

  

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