Jan Roëde - 3 figuren en wagentje kat en hond - Sold

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About Jan Roede Jan Roede was born in 1914 in Groningen as Jan Roede. He grew up in The Hague from the age of four, where he - apart from a few periods abroad - continued to live and work until the end of his life. After working as a draftsman in advertising for a short time, he started painting in 1941.
In the early years of his artistry, he immersed himself in painting and literature and became acquainted with Zen Buddhism, a vision of life that would inspire him for the rest of his life. He painted intuitively and saw his best works as 'relics of an enlightened moment': timeless and uninhibited, freed from the dressage of thought.
After the war he exhibited in The Hague, where his work was noticed by Willy Broers, later founder of the artists' groups Vrije Beelden (1947) and Creatie (1950). At his invitation, he took part in the 12 Painters exhibition in Amsterdam in 1946. In 1946-1948 he alternated between Sweden and France, where he had great success with several solo exhibitions. Because the French had difficulty pronouncing his name, he worked from 1946 under the name Roëde. In Paris, Roëde came into contact with surrealism through the poet Paul Eluard. He also came into contact with the Jeunes Peintres de Tradition Française, painters who built on the work of Bonard and Matisse, among others. In 1948 he discovered the 'inverted color perspective' with the painter Maurice Estève, a composition technique with cool colors in the foreground and expressive, warm colors in the background, which he would often apply later in his work. In that year he exhibited at Vrije Beelden in the Stedelijk Museum. Although his work from that time - influenced by Klee, Míro, and Picasso - showed some affinity with Cobra, he decided not to join this group. In 1950 he did participate in the large exhibition New movements in the visual arts at the Stedelijk Museum.
Jan Roëde developed into a surprising colorist with his very own style. Playful and always with a smile, he painted simple human and animal figures in non-naturalistic color compositions. From the second half of the 1960s, his use of color became brighter and more even. Roede's work is colourful, light-footed, poetic, averse to seriousness and heaviness. In addition to paintings, it also includes gouaches, drawings, collages, etchings, illustrations, book covers, costumes, furniture decorations, murals, plastics, glass walls and facade objects.
Jan Roëde was a member of the Pulchri painter's society in The Hague until the end of his life. In 1968, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague devoted its first retrospective to his work. Other important exhibitions were held in 1984 (The breakthrough of modern art in the Netherlands in the years 1945-1951), 1988 (The Hague Municipal Museum) and 1999 (Cobramuseum Amstelveen). Roëde was married to Maria Barbara Leewens and had two children: Marjolijn (deceased in 2008) and Jan (deceased in 1998). Roede passed away on May 30, 2007.