Hugo Claus - grote ingelijste kleurenlitho - Sold

Large framed color lithograph by Hugo Claus. Year: 1996. Edition: 221/250.
Dimensions including frame: H120 x W96.5 cm. Presentation dimensions: H64 x w38 cm
The work is signed by the artist, bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered can be fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


Passe-partout/frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

Upon purchase, 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, when paid in advance, is very long, ie the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.


Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (Bruges, April 5, 1929 – Antwerp, March 19, 2008) was a Flemish poet, writer, painter and filmmaker. He was the most awarded author from the Dutch language area. Over the course of his long career, Claus wrote thousands of poems, dozens of plays and several novels, the best known of which is his 1983 masterpiece The Sorrow of Belgium.

Claus's work is diverse in character. The author mixes the tragic, sublime, classical with the banal, burlesque and obscene. Recurring themes are: love for the mother, hatred against the (absent) father, sexuality, the feeling of guilt due to the Catholic faith and Flanders during and after the war.

Claus published the novel Schola nostra (1971) under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male. He also used the pseudonyms hugo c. by astene, Anatole Ghekiere, Jan Hyoens, Thea Streiner and possibly also Conny Couperus.

In 1983 he published The sorrow of Belgium, in which he describes the political-social relations in Belgium in the form of a family chronicle full of autobiographical facts, as always laced with surrealistic touches, and is looking for the roots of the collaboration of petty bourgeois in a provincial nest during the Second World War. At the same time, the novel is a Bildungsroman by a literary gifted and precocious boy and a key novel about a Flemish middle class from the described period. Claus was a player, literally at card game, poker and pietbak, as well as with his medium of literature and his reader. However accessible and apparently simple his work may be, he took disguised pleasure in interweaving false meanings and cryptic references in his work. He was delighted when he found out that a university-trained literary scholar was chasing him: Paul Claes, who paid attention to this fact with his essays 'De Mot is in de myth' and 'Claus-reading' (1984). added a dimension to the Claus study.