Jan van der Baan - Litho 1971

Lithograph by visual artist Jan Lucas van der Baan (1912-1990), member of the Groningen artists' association De Ploeg. Only six of this lithograph from 1971 entitled 'Litho' were made.

Van der Baan attended education from 1924 to 1931 at the Municipal HBS in Groningen, the school where team member Jan Gerrit Jordens taught drawing. In September 1931, Van der Baan began his studies at the Minerva art academy, where he was taught by Franciscus Hermanus Bach and Dirk de Vries Lam, among others.

In 1941, Van der Baan became a member of the nationally and internationally renowned art circle De Ploeg. After World War II, he played an important administrative role for De Ploeg. He was also one of the initiators of the Graphic Center, which was founded in 1964.

In the period 1935 to 1955, his then impressionistic work was characterized by a lot of atmosphere and bold colors. Important subjects for his paintings and watercolors were the landscape and the water. From the 1960s and early 1970s, the compositions and his use of color to depict these subjects became even more expressive and abstract, as can also be seen in this lithograph.

The painting and the frame are in very good condition. Signed lower left and dated '71.

Dimensions/(day) size lithography: width 38 cm and height 52 cm.
Frame dimensions: width 55.50 cm and height 70.50 cm.