Co Westerik - Zeefdruk - 'Paar' oplage 300 - Sold

The Dutch artist Co Westerik was born on March 2, 1924 in The Hague. Westerik was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Four years after graduating, he won the Jacob Maris Prize for painting with the painting 'The Fish Woman'. From 1958 to 1971, Co Westerik taught figure drawing at the academy in The Hague. Realistic Style Co Westerik painted in a realistic style and swam against the tide, 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 on painting was also decisive for his later work. In Max Doerner's 'Malmaterial und seine Verwendung im Bilde' from 1921, he found everything he needed, such as how to make paint and what the effect is 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 put people in a dramatic situation.