Adrianus van Zeegen - De Fantastische Diepzee Anemoon -materieschilderij begin 1900- - Sold

Monumental material painting by Adrianus van Zeegen in fair condition. Documented and signed on the back. Works by Janus van Zeegen are rare and are rarely offered. Can only be picked up by appointment in our store in Utrecht-Overvecht.
Van Zeegen studied at the Academy in Amsterdam and also received advice from his friends Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters. In the early years he mainly painted subjects from nature, which he deformed from 1912 onwards into visionary images. At that time he associated with progressive artists such as Piet Mondrian, Erich Wichman and Louis Saalborn. Van Zeegen exhibited his work at modern societies, including the Modern Art Circle (1912) and Het Signaal (1918). In the art critics from 1913 he is invariably praised for his 'visionary power' and 'visionary magic'. Van Zeegen himself called his work 'fantastic' rather than abstract. He was a forerunner of experimental art through the – as he himself described – 'plastic image processing' that he applied from around 1916. He mixed all kinds of natural materials such as anthracite grit, sand and marble chips with his oil paint. Sometimes he used a gas burner to achieve certain effects. Janus van Zeegen was shown at the groundbreaking exhibition The New World View. The beginning of abstract art in the Netherlands, 1910-1925, which was held from 19 January to 28 February 1973 in the Centraal Museum Utrecht and then traveled on to the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Groninger Museum. This exhibition created a clear picture of the pioneers of abstract art in the Netherlands for the first time. (source: Art Brokerage Metzemaekers)