Ger van Elk - Ingelijste zeefdruk: Western style masters - 1991 (ingelijst, groot!) - Sold

Framed screen print on photo lithograph on paper by Ger van Elk from 1991. Title: Western style masters. Edition: 4/4. Dimensions incl frame: H120 x W94cm. Dimensions representation: H80 x W50cm. The work is signed and dated lower left by the artist. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate can be emailed upon request.


When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, with advance payment, is very long. In other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work via a small art courier (Swift).

Frames: Damages to frames are not described. If a work is framed behind glass, the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflections may be visible in photos of framed works.

Gerrit Pieter (Ger) van Elk (Amsterdam, March 9, 1941 – Amsterdam, August 17, 2014) was a Dutch visual artist who made sculptures, painted photographs, installations and films, among other things. His work is generally classified as conceptual art and arte povera.

Together with Marinus Boezem, Wim T. Schippers and Jan Dibbets, Van Elk is regarded as one of the most important representatives of these movements in the Netherlands. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Tate Gallery in London, among others, have work by Van Elk. Reflection on art history plays an important role in his work.


Biography
Ger van Elk was educated at the Institute for Applied Arts Education (the current Rietveld Academy) in Amsterdam. He also studied art history at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles (1961–1963) and at the University of Groningen (1965–1966). In Los Angeles he became friends with like-minded artists such as William Wegman and the Dutchman Bas Jan Ader.

He started his career as an artist in the 1960s, when he signed the A-dynamic manifesto, with which he, together with Wim T. Schippers and Bob Wesdorp, argued for the production of works of art in which the personal expression of the artist is in no way important. is.

In 1967 Van Elk, together with Jan Dibbets and Reinier Lucassen, founded the International Institute for the Retraining of Artists, which was responsible for a number of manifestos and projects in the style of conceptual art.

In the 1960s and 1970s he also designed posters and record covers for impro music by well-known Dutch musicians.

From 1969 to 1972, Van Elk increasingly focused on working with slides and film images. In 1969 he took part in the exhibition Op Losse Schroeven/Situaties en Cryptostructures, in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Van Elk taught at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem from 1972 to 1981 and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1994–1995).

He received several prizes for his work, such as the David Röell Prize of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund in 1982, the JC van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture in 1996 and the Oeuvre Prize of the Fund for visual arts, design and architecture in 2004.

In 2013 he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and his health deteriorated. From his sickbed he described his work as follows: "The world of modern art is getting brighter and brighter. (...) I hate that and I wanted to respond to it in my own way."