Jef Diederen - GROTE potloodgesigneerde Litho "Infantes" - Sold

• Very beautiful & large "Composition in blue, green and red" Lithograph on Japanese paper. First made in an edition of 90 by the "Amsterdam Limburger" Jef Diederen in 1986 and also made in a non-commercial small edition of 15 (of which this is no. 4) and signed in pencil. Placed in a sturdy passe partout - NOT framed! Paper size 60x90cm. Including passe partout, the sizes are 82x112cm.
  
• Due to its size, this lithograph cannot be shipped, but can be picked up from us in Purmerend. Possible delivery with our courier is also possible (0.35ct per km driven).

Jef Diederen (Heerlen, August 25, 1920 - Amsterdam, March 26, 2009) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist. Diederen was one of the so-called Amsterdam Limburgers. His later painting is considered to be abstract art.



From 1939 to 1943 he attended the Secondary Applied Arts School in Maastricht, where he met Pieter Defesche and Ger Lataster. The applied arts school taught students in virtually all art disciplines, from painting and graphics to glass art and theater design. Jef continued his education in 1943 (Study direction Drawing) at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, but left again a year later to continue the education in 1947. He took part in the group exhibition Amsterdam painters van Nu in 1948 and completed his studies in Monumental and Decorative Painting in 1951. In 1948, 1949 and 1950 he received the Royal Subsidy for Painting. At the Rijksakademie Diederen also met Karel Appel and Corneille as his fellow students, in addition to Lataster.

Until 1955 he mostly painted landscape gouaches, drawings. They are mostly realistic landscapes from his native region of South Limburg. The painters referred to as 'Amsterdam Limburgers' eventually became known for very diverse work, but they are all deeply influenced by French post/impressionist art. After that he developed - just like Ger Lataster - in an abstract direction, although the landscape remained a great inspiration for him. The dimensions of his oil paintings were often idiosyncratic and therefore stood out. He also combined cloths in various sizes with each other.

Jef Diederen's art is lyrical-abstract with a friendly and soft appearance, despite the strong colours. France has been an important source of inspiration in this regard. His work is also characterized by strong social engagement. He creates works in response to, among other things, Apartheid in South Africa, the fate of the Jews in World War II, Nazi executions in the Ukraine, the oppression of Indians in the US, the Palestinian intifada, the political prisoners in Spain under the Franco regime and the Vietnam War, but with his landscapes he also has an eye for the depopulation of rural France. He pays extensive homage to his jazz heroes such as Albert Ayler or favorite artists such as Cézanne, and his artist friends Lei Molin and Pieter Defesche. He is inspired by, among other things, the texts of his friends the poets Lucebert and Bert Schierbeek and by medieval Spanish stories (such as 'Romance del Prisonero'). As an idiosyncratic artist, he has never sought permanent affiliation with groups or movements. In addition to his many paintings and works on paper, he also carried out various commissions for wall paintings and stained glass windows. He is one of the most prominent graphic artists in the Netherlands after the Second World War. He also taught at the Art Academy of Den Bosch.

In 1987 he was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize, a prize in appreciation of the individual artistic quality of an oeuvre within figurative art.