Siep van den Berg - 1 charcoal (forest landscape) and 1 ink (female nude) drawing - signed - Sold
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- Description
- Siep van den Berg (1913-1998)
| Type of artwork | Drawing / Aquarelle |
| Period | 1945 to 1999 |
| Technique | Pen (Ink) |
| Support | Paper |
| Framed | Not framed |
| Dimensions | 30 x 38 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
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- Dutch artist, painter and sculptor, born 14 January 1913 in Tirns, (municipality of Wymbritseradeel between Bolsward and Sneek). Died 28 October 1998 in Amsterdam.
'The power of what you have to say increases when you limit yourself', '(...) art has the task of making this life, which is a closed unity, clearer and more transparent'.
Siep van den Berg is regarded as one of the most important post-war Groningen modernists.
Education: Académie la Grande Chaumière Paris (Model drawing) and School of Arts and Crafts Groningen (evening course Drawing and Painting). Had lessons from Jan Altink.
He was married to Fie Werkman and therefore the son-in-law of HN Werkman.
Biography:
Siebren Ritsert van den Berg was born as the second of four sons in a Catholic family. His father was a blacksmith; his mother died in 1919 from the Spanish flu. The teacher and the pastor recognized Siep's talent for drawing early on, but his father preferred to see him learn a trade at the trade school.
Siep obeyed his father and became a house painter, but in addition to his work he still found time to make paintings every now and then.
In the early thirties he started an advertising agency and took painting lessons in the evenings at the Academie Minerva in Groningen. In his spare time he painted landscapes in a naturalistic style, with bright, cheerful colours.
In 1937 his painting was discovered by HN Werkman who invited him to his studio. Although Van den Berg had no interest in the artists of De Ploeg, he was happy to make an exception for Werkman.
A contact was made that would prove to be of great influence to Van den Berg. In 1943 he would marry his daughter Fietje and it was Werkman who drew his attention to the work of the French painter Cézanne, the founder of cubism.
His way of dealing with the imaginary space in the painting and his denial of the traditional rules of perspective resulted in a completely new visual language. In Cézanne, Sieb saw an artist who followed his own path and tried to represent what he observed in nature through experimentation and research. Not in a true-to-life way, but by eliminating everything superfluous.
Sybren Ridserd decides to become a professional painter in 1939 and rents the tea house at the Sterrebos as a studio. Siep still went his own way and painted mainly landscapes around this time, later also still lifes.
From 1947 onwards, the painter made an annual bimonthly study trip to Paris. At a private drawing school, he was taught by Zadkine and Giacometti in drawing from a model. He practiced endlessly in quick sketching, and refined his way of looking. In Paris, under the influence of the work of Cezanne, a shift took place in his work towards dividing the representation into planes and colours. From here, Siep would eventually evolve towards the geometric-abstract compositions that dominated the painter's oeuvre from the 1950s onwards.
The marriage with Fietje Werkman had ended in divorce and in 1954 Siep van den Berg left for Amsterdam. However, he did not break with Groningen. He kept the dome in the Sterrebos as a studio and kept himself involved with the gallery De Mangelgang on the Lage der Aa, which opened in 1946. He himself exhibited there several times and brought other modern art there.
The Friesland-born painter Siep van den Berg was inspired by the Groningen modern art, De Ploeg and by his father-in-law Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. But after his move to the west his style changed into what he calls: "... further away from nature and even more into fantasy". His work developed from stylization and simplification until the end of the 1960s when he stopped working from examples from nature and let go of everyday reality.
His work becomes abstract with a constructivist slant. With a visual idiom consisting of rectangles, squares and the use of primary colours: red, yellow, blue and black and white, the oeuvre of the Groningen artist Siep van den Berg fits into a period in which the COBrA artists predominate, the tradition of Mondrian, De Stijl and post-war constructivism.
From 1966 onwards, Siep van den Berg was out of circulation for years due to Guillain-Barré disease, but then returned with a creative explosion
in which he definitively established his importance as a post-war geometric-abstract artist.
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