Ciano Siewert - Hollands landschap, Dokkum | offset litho - ingelijst - Sold

Characteristic of the works of Ciano Siewert (1942) are the typical Dutch landscapes, city and harbor views. They are often panoramic performances. This also applies to this signed and limited offset lithograph with 'view of Dokkum', which was commissioned by KLM. Hence the Boeing passing at the top right of the image...
Edition: 87 of 250
Signed by hand, lower left
The top is in very good condition and is neatly framed with passe-partout in a sleek white exchangeable frame, of which a small piece of glass has broken off in the top left corner (just visible).
Photos are part of the description. The color scheme of the photos varies slightly due to different lighting.

About the artist:
Feliciano (Ciano) Siewert was born in 1942 in Rotterdam where he lives and works for a large part of his life. At a young age he takes drawing lessons and barely 16 years old he is admitted to the Rotterdam Academy. Love takes him to Australia where he takes lessons at the Sydney Academy. Due to disappointments, he returns to Rotterdam after seven months, where he earns a living through drawing and watercolor painting. Companies and government agencies are showing an interest in his work, such as Hoogovens, KLM, ING, Texaco and the Rotterdam Municipal Archives. Love takes him to many places in Europe and he eventually ends up in the United States. After these wanderings, a new love brings him back to the Netherlands in the late 1990s and he has been based in Utrecht ever since.

Ciano Siewert's work is notable for the typically Dutch clarity and virtuoso technique with which he elaborates his landscapes, city and harbor views. His work is characterized by sober realism. He paints unadorned what people have constructed such as bridges, dikes, mills and buildings, preferably in a wide, flat and empty landscape.
He is fascinated by both the old and the new, especially the form of the subject. Industrial forms, the architecture of houses, buildings and ships continue to fascinate him.
After years of working mainly in watercolor technique, Siewert has been painting exclusively in oil since 2002. During his Rotterdam period - with intervals in New York - Siewert immortalized industry and ports in its many forms and guises.

Salient detail: The artist does not always represent reality faithfully: "In almost every work I deviate from visible reality on a number of points. I arrange my own order, I arrange and perfect the composition according to my own insights. In the end an exciting, convincing picture emerges," says the painter in the book 'Ciano Siewert, an overview' from 2000.