Jan van Herwijnen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan van Herwijnen

Dutch painter

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1889

Place of Birth: Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1965

Profession: painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Jan van Herwijnen

  • Johannes Adrianus George van Herwijnen (4 November 1889 in Delft – 12 April 1965 in Bergen) was a Dutch painter. [f.e.
  • THE INSANITY DRAWINGS] "To really see art you first must detach from it, that's what it all about.
  • A painting is like music, you should not view, you should listen." Van Herwijnen was born in Delft and grew up in the Jordaan (Amsterdam).
  • He was different from the rest of the family.
  • At nine he went to the Rijksmuseum a tile table for copying, his master had given him a box of paints.
  • Concerts and museums hold him up as he began his eleventh year to earn a living.
  • When he was 21 he was clear: "Suddenly I knew I could see ".
  • Then I gained consciousness only.
  • Before that time I had looked into the world through the eyes of a child.
  • But then I knew who I was and what to do.
  • I started in the Rijksmuseum, because I knew the road.
  • Every day I sat there and it was like I had always painted.
  • " He wants no classes, no academy.
  • He represents himself by copying the old masters.
  • In 1912 he goes to Paris without a penny.
  • Half starved he comes back. He begins to draw people.
  • Poor models of the street and blind and deaf.
  • With the insanity life-size drawings from 1919 he established his name.
  • He works hard on these drawings and identifies himself with his models, he is exhausted.
  • The craziness with which he has handled this matter radiates from each drawing: heavy black lines and contours of a figure on a chair in an empty room.
  • Van Herwijnen is now supported by many prominent figures, among which Prof.
  • RN Roland Holst. He went to France with his family and lived from 1921 to 1923 in Collioure.
  • The paintings of Collioure feature the clean lines of the drawings in which the paint is filled with lots of blue and purple.
  • Then follows a gloomy period when his wife leaves him.
  • Paintings reflect his depressive state and are very dark.
  • When he goes to Florence, his work is lightened.
  • "The conquest of light" in all newspapers and magazines celebrated with superlatives.
  • "Van Herwijnen in the front ranks of contemporary painters came." In the autumn of 1934, he moved a house in the new studio complex on the Summer Dijkstraat.
  • Van Herwijnen married again and moved to Bergen in 1945. His work is still cheering "A picture of joy - great development of a strong talent - refined spirituality - colored music - this country equaled by no other." Van Herwijnen is suspicious.
  • His work is than heavier, sometimes lighter.
  • A pattern of doubt in his entire oeuvre can be seen.
  • In its lightest years he painted many flowers. He sometimes tries to explain: "I paint the light.
  • Not the physical light, a light that casts shadows.
  • I paint the light in the shade.
  • " The special treatment of his paint and his brush was repeatedly emphasized.
  • One critic in 1937 writes: "Perhaps our most gifted painter of today, is usually attracted to very simple matters. Twenty years later, another note: "There is never a dead spot, every square inch of a living painting, as if the light is gently shaking." Lunatics In 1919 the artist signed a series of life-size portraits of the insane from the Utrecht William Arntz Foundation.
  • In his own life he would himself have to deal with mental breakdowns.
  • Sometimes he went to the utmost of his ability.
  • Shortly after World War II Van Herwijnen painted a series of portraits of dead. Colorful and light - powerful and sombre The born in Delft Van Herwijnen grew up as child in Amsterdam.
  • He was a self-taught and developed in its own direction, without having to join an art group.
  • He is sometimes conveniently classified in a group of artists (the Bergen School), but that's not right. The delusion, the insane The series is loosely inspired by the iconographic series "The insane '.
  • After a psychological crisis, the self-taught artist Jan van Herwijnen (1889–1965) had created drawings of psychiatric patients in the William Arntz Foundation in Utrecht.
  • He quickly gets the interest from treating physicians and teachers of the medical faculty.
  • The 'insanity drawings' in 1920 are exhibited. Since 2005 the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem received a long term loan of this impressive series of drawings made with black chalk at life-size format. Seven The number seven, the seven paintings bear the idea of perfection in themselves as in Christianity God in seven days the earth.
  • The classical education is related to the ideal of the seven liberal arts.
  • Liberal arts is originally a classical European education concept, which at the founding of the first Dutch universities (late 16th century) was planned.
  • This means that students need a broad training in the liberal arts course and then specialized in industries such as Law or Medicine. The seven deadly sins and virtues. Head Sin is a term primarily used in the Catholic Church.
  • These are seven sins, each underlying many other sins.
  • These are: pride, greed, lust, jealousy, intemperance, revenge and laziness.
  • Besides the seven deadly sins that play a role in the Catholic tradition there is also a list of their counterparts, the seven virtues: wisdom, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope and charity.

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