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Colorful 'Nude Study' by Alphons Freijmuth.
Hand signed and numbered (lo) 64/100.
The work is framed.
Dimensions (in cm)
L 29.5 x W 24.5
Incl. wooden frame:
L 42 x W 32 D x 3 cm
Will be carefully packed and shipped insured. Pick up is also possible, that is allowed in Amsterdam.
About the artist:
Alphons Freijmuth (Haarlem 1940) is a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist.
Freijmuth mainly works as a painter, but since the early eighties he also started making sculptures. Freijmuth spent a lot of time with Reinier Lucassen. The two painters, both admirers of the work of René Magritte, influenced each other and sometimes made paintings with the same subject or variations on or of each other's work. His work is considered to be part of the New Figuration, of which he was one of the founders, just after the Second World War. Like-minded artists such as Reinier Lucassen and Pieter Holstein took everyday subjects as a starting point to distort and alienate reality. It was a new vision of painting out of dissatisfaction with the established views on figuration and Expressionism. By abstracting form, they created a completely different visual language.
He has a wild, abstract expressionist style, with bright colours. The bright colours are applied to the canvas in a pasty manner and often directly from the tube. However, his work also contains elements of De Stijl and constructivism (for example Constructivism with beam and branch from 1986/87). His choice of subjects concerns figure representations, nudes, portraits and self-portraits. In addition, women occupy an important place in his work.
His work is in the museum collections of the Stedelijk, the Kunstmuseum, Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle and the Frans Hals Museum, among others. From 1974 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Art and Industry (AKI) in Enschede.