Bob Immink - Landscape with farm

Bob Immink
(Amsterdam 1930 – Ilpendam, 1989)
Petrus Theodorus Immink was a painter, graphic artist, screen printer and watercolourist. At the age of 37 he moved to the Zaanstreek. He captured the North Holland landscape many times. But it did not stop at the Zaans-Waterland landscape. He travelled a lot and made sketches and paintings of landscapes everywhere: Greek temples, American mountain landscapes, deserts, abandoned villages in the Spanish plains, nudes, interiors and pub and sports scenes. Also special are the works with a magical-realistic slant.

PA van Wigcheren, art critic for the Nieuwe Noordhollandse Courant, about Immink: “A passionate artist, who in his work – painting, watercolours, silkscreens and collages – tries to reduce the landscape to its essence. A master of omission, I have called Immink. indicating that he eliminates all kinds of details in his work and only depicts the main points in powerful planes, without the recognisability of the landscapes he has captured disappearing. A powerful passion radiates from the artist in all his works. Often very sparse in terms of colour, then again reduced to the bare essentials, but sometimes also very explosive, without ever becoming intrusive and hard.”