Aad de Haas - Linosnede - 1966 - Sold

Linocut by Aad de Haas. Title: Black and White. Year: 1966. Edition: 9/50. Number: 3. Dimensions including passe-partout: H55 x W40cm. Dimensions representation: H28.5 x W22cm. The work is signed lower right by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 10 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, with advance payment, is very long. In other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Adrianus Johannes (Aad) de Haas (Rotterdam, December 30, 1920 - Schaesberg, March 21, 1972), was a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist and painter, whose work is usually characterized as figurative expressionist. Lifecycle He grew up in a Catholic environment and, after secondary school, studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts. De Haas experienced the bombing of Rotterdam. His work was labeled 'entartet' by the occupying forces and he ended up in prison. In 1944 he managed to flee to South Limburg with his wife Nel, where he would spend the rest of his life and work as a passionate and socially involved artist. From 1952 he lived in Kasteel Strijthagen in Schaesberg. In the years after the Second World War, he played his own role in the Limburg art climate. He resolutely rejected trend-sensitive developments and continued to work in a very special and personal oeuvre in a figurative, expressionist tradition. With De Haas, this stubbornness was not a stylistic matter. He is characterized by an absolute fusion of his life and work and by a relentless production: he couldn't help but make 'beautiful things', entirely for his 'own fun'. De Haas was always a bit contrary in his attitude to work and life; activism and autonomy went hand in hand for him. Aad de Haas died in 1972 at the age of 51 and left behind a large oeuvre of works in different techniques and styles, which clearly reflect his unique visual language and the universal themes that are important to him. Religion, suffering, power, resistance, temptation and eroticism are recurring themes in his work, which are often intertwined with experiences from his personal life. De Haas' work holds up a mirror to society, as it were: his art speaks of a conscience. De Haas' name is mainly associated with the conflict over his wall paintings in the Sint Cunibertus Church in Wahlwiller. Church resistance grew against these Stations of the Cross, which he completed in 1947, and they eventually had to be removed by order of the Diocese of Roermond, under the episcopate of Bishop Guillaume Lemmens. They were only able to return in 1981, with the help of Bishop Jo Gijsen. In 1996, Bishop Frans Wiertz apologized on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church and De Haas was posthumously rehabilitated. In 1949, De Haas was honored with the Prize of the Artists' Resistance Foundation by the Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet 1942-1945. In 1994/1995, the City Gallery of Heerlen purchased part of De Haas's artistic legacy from the heirs. This acquisition included more than 250 works (paintings, drawings, monotypes and graphics). Nowadays the largest collection of Aad de Haas has been brought together in the municipal collection SCHUNCK (Heerlen). The artist's work is also included in Dutch museum and private collections.