Jan Wiegers - Color lithograph: Mountain landscape - Sold

Color lithograph by Jan Wiegers. Title: Mountain Landscape. Edition: 28/100. Tabletop dimensions: H50 x W39cm. Dimensions representation: H44 x W33cm. The work is signed at the bottom right of the print - and with a studio stamp. The authenticity of the offered work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

Send/pick up:

When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 10 minutes from the beach). The term for collection is very generous with advance payment. 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. The work can also be sent via PostNL. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Jan Wiegers (Kommerzijl, July 31, 1893 – Amsterdam, November 30, 1959) was a Dutch expressionist painter. He was one of the pioneers and founders of De Ploeg in Groningen.

Life and work

Wiegers was educated at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, but he also attended the academies of Rotterdam and The Hague. During a stay in Davos, Switzerland, where he underwent a tuberculosis cure in 1920, he befriended the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who greatly influenced his art. Kirchner introduced him to Goethe's color theory. Wiegers had already co-founded the Groningen artists' movement De Ploeg in 1918. Unlike the expressionists from the Bergen School, Wiegers and de Ploegers brought, after the example of German Expressionism, a remarkably violent color palette. This group included Johan Dijkstra, Jan van der Zee, Hendrik Werkman, George Martens and his wife Alida Pott, Jacob Gerard (Job) Hansen, Jan Altink, JG Jordens and Ekke Abel Kleima.

In 1934 he left Groningen and went to Amsterdam to live and work there. In Amsterdam he enjoyed a certain reputation as one of the most important representatives of expressionism; at the same time, his painting style became less exuberant and his non-conformist use of color more sober. He was appointed professor at the Rijksakademie in 1953, and died there in 1959 at the age of 66.