Düsseldorf excavation, around 1912 1912

Harrie Kuyten

Pittura a olioDipingere
38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionVery good
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• A proposito di opere d'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.
  
  
• A proposito di opere artista
  Harrie Kuyten (1983, Utrecht – 1952, Schoorl), nome completo Henricus Johannes Kuyten, è stato un artista olandese. Fu incisore, litografo, taglialegna, disegnatore e pittore. Ha studiato all'Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Accademia di Belle Arti), Anversa (1904-1905). Fu influenzato dagli impressionisti e dai fauvisti francesi. Kuyten appartiene alla scuola Bergense. Gli è stata assegnata una borsa di studio reale per tre anni. Dipinse vedute di porti, paesaggi, paesaggi urbani, animali, nature morte, interni, autoritratti, nudi. Dopo aver viaggiato in diversi paesi si stabilì ad Amsterdam nel 1914. In seguito, dopo aver soggiornato in Austria, Ungheria e Parigi, si stabilì a Schoorl. È stato membro di Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, e Onafhankelijken (Indipendenti), Amsterdam. Opere di sua mano si trovano tra l'altro nel Museo Kranenburgh, Bergen (N.-H.).