Peter Diem - Large erotic lithograph "Nude full frontal" signed in pencil - Sold

• Jan van Diemen (Amsterdam, 1954)

Born in Amsterdam in 1954, he studied MO-B Drawing from 1973 to 1978, also in Amsterdam, and lived in Amstelveen from 1970. His love for the subject of sports arose during his studies. Working on canvases and paper, he manages to capture - usually in very large formats - the dynamics and lyricism of (top) sports in series of oil paints, gouaches and screen prints. Due to his abstract-expressionist way of working, not only the performance of the athlete receives full attention, but also the atmosphere and the (landscape) environment of the sport chosen as the subject. Jan van Diemen combines a bright, never restrained color with energetic lines. Due to his preference for drawing-like elements, he is able to greatly increase the intensity of the action or sports event. While the work is stylistically unmistakably in line with the expressionism of Kees van Bohemen, Pieter Defesche and Karel Appel, but also has influences from Willem de Kooning, for example, Jan van Diemen has carved out a unique place for himself within the past three decades through his outspoken visual language. to acquire contemporary visual art.