Jef Diederen - Houtsnede: Montagne Sainte Victoire - 1991 - Sold

Woodcut by Jef Diederen. Title: Montagne Sainte Victoire. Year: 1991. Edition: 75/75. Dimensions top: H92.5 x w63cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H84 x w61cm. The work is signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right corner. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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. The work can also be sent. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

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.
life and work
From 1939 to 1943 he attended the secondary applied arts school in Maastricht, where he met Pieter Defesche and Ger Lataster. The arts and crafts school taught the students in virtually all art disciplines, from painting and graphics to glass art and theater design. In 1943 Jef continued his education (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 Monumental and Decorative Painting in 1951. In 1948, 1949 and 1950 he received the Royal Grant for Painting. In addition to Lataster, Diederen also met Karel Appel and Corneille as his fellow students at the Rijksacademie.
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 'Amsterdamse Limburgers' eventually became known with very diverse work, but they are all profoundly influenced by French post/impressionist art. After that he developed - 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 striking. He also combined canvases in various sizes.
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. His work is further characterized by strong social engagement. He creates works in response to apartheid in South Africa, the fate of the Jews in World War II, Nazi executions in Ukraine, the oppression of the 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 the countryside in France. He makes extensive tributes 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 recognition of the individual artistic quality of an oeuvre within the figurative art.