Co Westerik - Lithograph, connected - Sold

The Dutch artist Co Westerik was born in The Hague on March 2, 1924. Westerik trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Four years after he graduated, he won the Jacob Maris Prize for painting with the painting 'The Fish Woman'. From 1958 to 1971, Co Westerik was a figure drawing teacher at the academy in The Hague. Realistic style Co Westerik painted in a realistic style and thus swam against the current, because the fifties and sixties were mainly dominated by experiment and abstraction. Partly because of this, his work also provoked negative reactions. Westerik was inspired by old masters such as Jan van Eyck and Piero della Francesca. A book about painting was also decisive for his later work. In 'Malmaterial und seine Verwendung im Bilde' from 1921 by Max Doerner he found everything he needed, such as how to make paint and the effect of different layers of paint applied on top of each other. Co Westerik made paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs and etchings. People, animals and plants are central to his work. He often placed people in a dramatic situation.