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Siep van den Berg (1913-1998)

Type of artwork	Drawing / Aquarelle
Year	1992
Technique	Pen (Ink)
Support	Paper
Style	Abstract
Subject	Abstract

Framed	Framed
Dimensions	25 x 15 cm (h x w)
Incl. frame	35 x 55 cm (h x w)
Signed	Hand signed

Description

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Dutch artist, painter and sculptor, born January 14, 1913 in Tirns, (municipality of Wymbritseradeel between Bolsward and Sneek). Died October 28, 1998 in Amsterdam.

'The power of what you have to say increases when you limit yourself', '(...) art has the task of making this life, which is a closed unity, clearer and more transparent'.

Siep van den Berg is seen as one of the most important post-war Groningen modernists.

Education: Académie la Grande Chaumière Paris (Figure drawing) and Kunstnijverheidsschool Groningen (evening course Drawing and Painting). Had lessons from Jan Altink.
He was married to Fie Werkman and therefore the son-in-law of HN Werkman.

Biography:

Siebren Ritsert van den Berg was born the second of four sons in a Catholic family. His father was a blacksmith; his mother died of the Spanish flu in 1919. The teacher and the pastor recognized Siep's talent for drawing at an early age, but his father preferred to see him learn a trade at the craft school.
Siep obeyed his father and became a house painter, but besides his work he still found time to make paintings now and then.

In the early 1930s he started an advertising agency and took painting lessons at the Academy Minerva in Groningen in the evenings. In his spare time he painted landscapes in a naturalistic style, with bright, cheerful colors.

In 1937 his painting was discovered by HN Werkman who invited him to his studio. Although Van den Berg had nothing to do with the De Ploeg artists, he was happy to make an exception for Werkman.
A contact was established that will prove to be of great influence to Van den Berg. In 1943 he would marry his daughter Fietje and it was Werkman who drew his attention to the work of the French painter Cézanne, the founder of Cubism.
His way of dealing with the imaginary space in the painting and his denial of the traditional rules of perspective resulted in an entirely new visual language. In Cézanne, Sieb saw an artist who followed his own path and tried to reproduce what he observed in nature through experimentation and research. Not in a natural way, but by eliminating everything superfluous.

Sybren Ridserd decides to become a professional painter in 1939 and rents the tea dome at the Sterrebos as a studio. Siep still went his own way and mainly painted landscapes around this time, later also still lifes.

From 1947 onwards, the painter made an annual study trip to Paris every two months. At a private drawing school he was taught by Zadkine and Giacometti in drawing from a model. He practiced endlessly in fast sketching and refined his way of looking. In Paris, under the influence of Cezanne's work, there was a shift in his work towards division of the representation into planes and colours. From here, Siep would eventually evolve towards the geometric-abstract compositions that predominated in the painter's oeuvre from the 1950s onwards.

The marriage to Fietje Werkman ended in divorce and in 1954 Siep van den Berg left for Amsterdam. However, he does not break with Groningen. He keeps the dome in the Sterrebos as a studio and is involved in the De Mangelgang gallery on the Lage der Aa, which opened in 1946. He himself exhibits there several times and brings other modern art to it.

The painter Siep van den Berg, who was born in Friesland, was inspired by the Groningen modern art, De Ploeg, and by his father-in-law Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. But after moving west, his style changed to what he calls "...again further away from nature and going even more into the fantasy". His work developed from stylization and simplification to the end of the 1960s when he stopped working from examples from nature and let go of everyday reality.

His work becomes abstract with a constructivist slant. With a visual idiom consisting of rectangles, squares and the use of the primary colours: red, yellow, blue and black and white, the oeuvre of the Groningen artist Siep van den Berg fits in a period in which the COBrA artists predominate, the tradition of Mondrian, De Stijl and post-war constructivism.

From 1966, Siep van den Berg has been out of circulation for years due to Guillain-Barré's disease, but then returns with a creative explosion
in which he definitively established his importance as a post-war geometric-abstract artist.

Condition

Good

in good condition - professionally framed.

Shipment

Pick up

The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Purmerend, The Netherlands

Shipment

Parcel post

Price

Up to 5 kg.

Within The Netherlands	€10.00
To Belgium	€15.00
To Germany	€15.00
Within EU	€17.50
Worldwide	€20.00

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Start time	29-1-2023 at 21:14
End time	9-2-2023 at 16:27

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