Ditch in Kortenhoef by Piet van Wijngaerdt

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Ditch in Kortenhoef 1900 - 1964

Piet van Wijngaerdt

CanvasOil paintPaint
28 ⨯ 49 cm
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About the artwork
In the beginning of the 20th century the village of Kortenhoef, located in the middle of Holland, was popular among painters because of its surroundings with lovely lakes and small rivers. This picturesque scenery attracted many landscape-painters. One of them was Piet van Wijngaerdt. Later on he became one of the leading figures of the so-called 'Bergense School'. This colourful painting (Oil on canvas, signed lower left) shows the expressionist talent of the painter Van Wijngaerdt.
About the artist
The Amsterdam painter Piet van Wijngaerdt is regarded, together with Henri Le Fauconnier, as the theorist founder of the Bergen School. He painted landscapes, figures and powerful still lifes in a Cubist-Expressionist style, in which unexpected colour contrasts and the effects of light and shade were important means of expression. For his flowers he chose distinctive forms like amaryllis, lily and gladioli. For his landscapes he drew inspiration from the farmlands to the south of Amsterdam.

After 1941 he worked mainly in and around Abcoude.

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