Düsseldorf excavation, around 1912 1912

Harrie Kuyten

Pintura de aceitePintura
38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionVery good
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• Sobre la obra de arte
  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.
  
  
• Sobre el artista
  Harrie Kuyten (1983, Utrecht - 1952, Schoorl), nombre completo Henricus Johannes Kuyten, era un artista holandés. Fue grabador, litógrafo, leñador, dibujante y pintor. Estudió en la Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Academia de Bellas Artes), Amberes (1904-1905). Fue influenciado por los impresionistas y los fauvistas franceses. Kuyten pertenece a la escuela Bergense. Se le concedió una Beca Real por tres años. Pintó vistas del puerto, paisajes, paisajes urbanos, animales, naturalezas muertas, interiores, autorretratos, desnudos. Después de viajar por varios países, se instaló en Ámsterdam en 1914. Posteriormente, tras su estancia en Austria, Hungría y París, se instaló en Schoorl. Fue miembro de Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, y de Onafhankelijken (Independientes), Amsterdam. Las obras de su mano se encuentran, entre otras, en el Museo Kranenburgh, Bergen (N.-H.).