Piet van Wijngaerdt - Olieverf op doek: Amaryllis - Sold

Oil on canvas by Piet van Wijngaerdt. Title: Amaryllis. Dimensions work: H62 x w77cm. The work is signed and dated by the artist at the bottom left and on the back. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate 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, if paid in advance, is very long. 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 above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent with a courier for 25 euros or via Postnl for 17.50 euros.


Petrus Theodorus (Piet) van Wijngaerdt (Amsterdam, November 4, 1873 – Abcoude, January 25, 1964) was a Dutch graphic artist, painter, draftsman, etcher and lithographer. He was educated at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1892 to 1897. On other Wikimedia projects
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life and work
After his education at the Rijksakademie, van Wijngaerdt spent some time in Paris and Kortenhoef before moving into his studio at 34 Overtoom in Amsterdam. He also worked in Katwijk, Haarlem, and Abcoude from 1941. His work in those years has a luministic character. He made works of art such as: flower still lifes, dune landscapes, figure representations and peasant scenes, portraits, interiors, landscapes, polder landscapes, river landscapes, nude figures, cityscapes, winter landscapes and self-portraits in an impressionistic style.

In the period 1913-1920, Van Wijngaerdt played an important role in the struggle between the old-style artists and the modernists. The founders of the so-called Bergen School were the French painter Henri Le Fauconnier and Piet van Wijngaerdt. They were widely imitated by young painters who agitated against Impressionism, just as happened in France with Fauvism and in Germany with Expressionism. The group's theories can be found in the magazine Het Signaal. Le Fauconnier settled in a studio at 288 Overtoom in Amsterdam, close to Van Wijngaerdt. The breakthrough is a fact with the founding of the Dutch Artists Circle (HKK), of which Piet van Wijngaerdt became the chairman. Members include: Leo Gestel, Piet van der Hem, Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig and HJ Wolters.

In addition to the founders, Charley Toorop, Else Berg, Karel Colnot, Piet Mondriaan and Gustave De Smet are also taking part in the second HKK exhibition. In 1916 Le Fauconnier founded the artists' association Het Signaal, which advocated a figurative expressionism, based on his work and his theoretical propositions.

Van Wijngaerdt exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1918, 1924 and 1935 and in the art gallery Mak van Waaij on the Rokin in Amsterdam and in the Lakenhal in Leiden. In 1954 another exhibition was held in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Van Wijngaerdt's work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Dordrechts Museum and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. The Boendermaker Collection contained 97 of his works.

In 1940 Piet van Wijngaerdt moved from Amsterdam to Abcoude. He kept his studio on the Overtoom and traveled up and down to Amsterdam by train every day. He worked until the end of his life. He died at the age of ninety in his house on the Gein in Abcoude.