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Description
Daniel Wilhelm Bekking (1906-1973)

Type of artwork	Painting
Period	1945 to 1999
Technique	Oil paint
Support	Canvas
Style	Expressionist
Subject	Landscape

Framed	Not framed
Dimensions	70 x 90 cm (h x w)
Signed	Hand signed

Description

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Daniel Wilhelm Bekking (Dan. Bekking), born on January 8, 1906 in Haarlem, died on September 4, 1973 in Amsterdam, attended the Academy of Visual Arts and Technical Sciences in Rotterdam after completing an HBS education in The Hague.
After completing his studies, he settled in Paris, where he belonged to the group of younger expressionists that had formed around the painters Dunoyer de Ségonzac, Othon Friesz, Thévenet, Osterlind, Derain, Gromaire and the Dutchman Conrad Kickert, with whom he was an intimate friend.
He had many portrait commissions in Paris and exhibited at the "Salon des Indépendants" (chairman: Paul Signac) and at the very select "Salon des Tuileries" (chairman Othon Friesz).
In 1939 Daan Bekking "stranded" in the Netherlands, where he happened to stay after delivering a few canvases to Dutch buyers, and where a few portrait commissions had held him up. The last train that ran after the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and the Allies took him to the French border. From there he had to return to the Netherlands with nothing to do, leaving behind all his work and all his possessions in his Paris studio, of which nothing has been found after the war.
In a short time he managed to establish a foothold in the Netherlands: in addition to his own activities, he trained many painters in his own studio and from 1945 to 1964 he was first secretary and then chairman of the Independents .
His activities were also diverse in the cultural field and at home and abroad he gave lectures on art appreciation on request. He mainly exhibited abroad (France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden) and only exceptionally in the Netherlands.
He was a real 'painter': that is, he preferred to work with oil paint. He also made watercolors and drawings. His work shows the development from 'Fauve' to 'lyrical expressionist'. Fauvism, expressionism, as well as impressionism, naturalism, symbolism, cubism, surrealism, futurism are all facets of the multifaceted human mind and are not tied to a particular period. They exist side by side and every artist: painter, sculptor, writer, composer, naturally chooses the direction that best suits his own character.
The name 'Fauves' (Fr. = literally 'wild animals') was used for the first time by a French art critic as a mocking name - just as the style designations 'Gothic' and 'Impressionism' arose from mock names - for a number of painters (including Matisse , Derain, Friesz, Vlaminck, Dufy) who used color and line to achieve the utmost in expression, often with disregard for realistic details. It was, as it were, a great offensive of color as a means of expression. The forerunners of this direction were, among others, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne.
The 'Fauvism' with its bright colors, which originated in France, can be mentioned in the same breath as 'Expressionism', which originated in Germany. The expressionists also use bright colors that are not attuned to nature, resulting from the emotional charge. Expressionism wants to be an expression of inner reality.
The Fauvist and the Expressionists are also idealists at the same time, turning and resisting against the materialistic, mindless and cruel reality of this world, which stands in stark contrast to the dreamed ideal image. They do not seek the reality, but the 'eternal truth', which lies hidden behind the things which the eye perceives. They know that it is impossible to represent real reality because no two people see and experience things in the same way. At most one could represent the outer reality, the outer appearance. For them, however, the image of the world lives within themselves. Therefore their art is the representation of their own soul expressions. This was the direction Daan Bekking had to go according to his character structure and he stayed true to this direction until his death, because he wanted to stay true to himself. He loved all the beautiful things in this life, all the art: painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature. He loved life itself in all its aspects. He loved man, the few very great and the many wretches: the beggars, the Parisian clochards, the vagabonds, the homeless, the unfortunate, the poor. He loved the skilled craftsman, the peasant in the eternal cycle of nature, the shepherds on the arid, inhospitable plains of France and Spain. He loved nature itself, as witnessed by his many landscapes and tree studies; of the animals, which he never tired of studying and drawing. He loved the dream and fled, both in spirit and in reality, from the evil and banal in this world. In the privacy of his studio or alone in God's free nature, he realized that love for everything that lived in his work. He used his own language for this, the language of the 'lyrical expressionist', the painter, who is also a poet and who tries to connect the dream of the beautiful with the recognizable reality.
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Condition

Good

few visible irregularities. Sober wooden frame.

Shipment

Pick up

The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Shipment

Parcel post

Price

Up to 5 kg.

Within The Netherlands	€10.00
To Belgium	€15.00
To Germany	€20.00
Within EU	€25.00
Worldwide	€40.00

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Start time	19-6-2022 at 21:40
End time	26-6-2022 at 21:11

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