Jan Sierhuis - Large Lithograph - very small edition (40) - abstract composition - neatly framed - Sold

• Very beautiful color lithography made in 1991 by Jan Sierhuis in a very small edition. Signed, numbered and dated in pencil. Neatly framed and from the ABN-AMRO art collection. Dimensions including frame 80 x 100cm (HxW). Is in very good condition.

Born: Amsterdam Education: Craft school and partly National Academy Jan Sierhuis was a painter, an expressionist par excellence. His greatest sources of inspiration are Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh. An Amsterdammer through and through, a painter who is enough to paint the reality of his environment. As a boy wandering through Amsterdam, he sees city life as Breitner and Israëls had painted it so lifelike. A city full of simple people who had to work hard to stay alive, but also a city with conviviality and solidarity. As a little boy he was already sculpting and drawing, and at the age of nine he was given an easel and a painting box. His mother does not see an artistic career for him and sends him to trade school to become a house painter. This training will serve him well for the technical knowledge of materials. In 1945 he was admitted to the evening course at the National Academy. After a conflict he leaves the academy. He lives a bohemian life in Amsterdam and has deep friendships with famous Dutch poets, including Gerrit Kouwenaar. He is involved with De Experimentelen in 1947, and in 1948 with the Cobra group, but he does not join them. In the sixties he exhibited in Paris, Mexico, Brazil and Copenhagen. After 1984 he returns to romantic expressionism, in large formats he is inspired by flamenco, which fascinates him mainly because of the feeling that this dance conveys. These dances have everything from his painting: color, emotion, movement and rhythm. Jan Sierhuis taught at Atelier '63 in Haarlem. In 1983, Jan Sierhuis became a teacher at the Rietveld Academy and in 1984 at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Exhibitions of his work were seen in the Netherlands, Mexico, Ver. States, Argentina, Colombia, Japan, Switzerland etc.