Düsseldorf excavation, around 1912 1912

Harrie Kuyten

Pintura a óleoPintar
38 ⨯ 28 cm
ConditionVery good
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• Sobre 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 artista
  Harrie Kuyten (1983, Utrecht - 1952, Schoorl), nome completo Henricus Johannes Kuyten, era um artista holandês. Ele foi um gravador, litógrafo, lenhador, desenhista e pintor. Estudou na Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Academia de Belas Artes) de Antuérpia (1904-1905). Ele foi influenciado pelos impressionistas e fauvistas franceses. Kuyten pertence à Escola Bergense. Ele foi premiado com uma bolsa real por três anos. Ele pintou vistas do porto, paisagens, paisagens urbanas, animais, naturezas mortas, interiores, autorretratos, nus. Depois de viajar por vários países, ele se estabeleceu em Amsterdã em 1914. Mais tarde, depois de ter ficado na Áustria, Hungria e Paris, estabeleceu-se em Schoorl. Ele foi membro da Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdã, e do Onafhankelijken (Independentes), Amsterdã. Obras feitas por ele estão, entre outras, no Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (N.-H.).