Willem Visser - Polder path near Berkenwoude - Sold

Willem Visser studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts (now called the Willem de Kooning Academy) from 1974 to 1979. Between 1979 and 2002, he regularly exhibited landscapes and cityscapes in the Netherlands and Belgium. During that time, the polder landscape, in particular, held his interest. His work is held in private and public collections at home and abroad. Old themes sometimes suddenly return, as in this painting from 2024. What still fascinates him about the polder landscape is the sense of depth created by lines that all lead to the horizon of the flat land, and the colors that at the horizon seem to increasingly merge into a haze of blue-green hues. Traditionally, the polder landscape involves a relatively low horizon with an imposing cloudy sky above it. Visser often reverses that by showing a high horizon, the cloudy sky, and the trees as reflections in the water. Willem Visser lives and works in Rotterdam.