Henk Huig - 1969 -large abstract mixed media - Presentation III - in original frame

• Beautiful expressionist painted 60s (1969) mixed media (oil, watercolor, pastel, etc.) by Amsterdam visual artist Henk Huig. In good condition and in the original (although slightly damaged) frame. Titled and dated by the artist on the back.

Hendricus (Henk) Huig was born on 30 June 1934 in Amsterdam. He studied at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam, where he was taught by graphic artist and illustrator Ap Sok, draftsman, graphic designer and illustrator Lex Metz and painter and sculptor Johan van Zweden. Huig graduated in 1955 and left for Scandinavia for a short time. Henk Huig is a graphic artist, draftsman and painter. He has undergone a development that took him away from graphics. Through collages, the artist came to making gouaches, which he started in 1960. In 1967, Huig received the Amsterdam Harbor Prize for a canvas composed of comic-like components on which many sides of the harbor and water were ironically commented on. Although Henk Huig often made lifelike representations in the beginning, his style became looser over the years. His favorite subject is in particular the large, wide space on the edge of the city and the desolation of yards and crumbling parts of the city. The desolation and loneliness is reinforced by the fact that Huig never depicts people in his paintings. He finds people too mobile and restless, while he wants to achieve something else with his artwork. Huig likes to play with height and depth. Since the Netherlands is so flat, he often has to create the depth himself by changing the exact representation and, for example, bringing certain buildings forward and painting others higher or lower. What is also striking is that he adds extras to the artwork. He paints church towers in places where no church is visible at all, or he paints an extra floor on a building. He also often draws buildings in the composition that are a hundred meters to the left or right of his location and therefore do not really belong there. He himself says about this: "I then draw a certain place and the buildings or empty spaces that I do not like I fill with a building that I do like". Incidentally, his paintings are in stark contrast to the etchings and drawings that are completely historically and topographically correct. [Source: hart.amsterdam] Henk Huig was a teacher of classical painting, drawing and graphics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1974 to 1988 and supervised students of the Amsterdam painting group 'Veronese'. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has work by Henk in its collection.