Jan Wiegers - Large 1930s linocut 'Amsterdam with Westertoren' pencil signed - Sold

• A large, by the famous "Groninger Ploeg" artist Jan Wiegers (1893-1959) in the 1930s of the last century Linocut on paper "Amsterdam with Westertoren". Signed lower left in pencil. Sheet size: 65 x 45cm. Image size 37x27cm. In good sharp condition.

Jan Wiegers (Kommerzijl, 31 July 1893 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1959) was a Dutch expressionist painter. He was one of the pioneers and founders of De Ploeg in Groningen.
Life and work Wiegers was educated at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, but he also visited the academies of Rotterdam and The Hague. During a stay in Davos, Switzerland, where he underwent a tuberculosis treatment in 1920, he became friends with the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who strongly influenced his art. Kirchner introduced him to Goethe's colour theory. Wiegers had already co-founded the Groningen artists' movement De Ploeg in 1918. Unlike the expressionists from the Bergen School, Wiegers and De Ploegers, following the example of German Expressionism, introduced a strikingly intensely moving colour palette. This group included Johan Dijkstra, Jan van der Zee, Hendrik Werkman, George Martens and his wife Alida Pott, Jacob Gerard (Job) Hansen, Jan Altink, JG Jordens and Ekke Abel Kleima. In 1934 he left Groningen and went to Amsterdam to live and work there. In Amsterdam he enjoyed a certain fame as one of the most important representatives of expressionism; at the same time his painting style became less exuberant and the non-conformist use of colour more sober. He was appointed professor at the Rijksakademie in 1953, and died there in 1959 at the age of 66.