Jan Nieuwenhuys
Jan Nieuwenhuys (born January 8, 1922 in Amsterdam ; † December 28, 1986 there ) was a Dutch painter and co-founder of the artists' association CoBrA .
life and work
Jan Nieuwenhuys went to the Rijksnormaalschool in Amsterdam from 1938 to 1941 . His brother is the painter Constant . At the beginning of World War II, Nieuwenhuys took lessons at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten . There he met Karel Appel and Corneille . Nieuwenhuys changed his subjects and mainly painted clowns, naked and lovers. It was only after the war that he began to paint fantasy animals, aggressive roosters, cats and bulls. Later he was inspired by dreams, children's drawings, the art of the mentally handicapped and primitive art. Birds, cats and fantasy creatures, combined from humans, animals and mechanical elements, play an important role in his painting.
On July 16, 1948, Corneille , Constant, Karel Appel , Theo Wolvecamp , Anton Rooskens , Eugène Brands and Jan Nieuwenhuys founded the Experimentele Groep in Holland based on the Danish model . A few months later this group merged into the artist group CoBrA .
“Jan Nieuwenhuys (1922–1986), Constant's brother, only joined this group for a short time. Under the influence of the Ecole de Paris , he begins to compose strange, surrealistic pictures with fish and fantasy creatures. In addition, he creates totem-like objects. [...] Jan Nieuwenhuys, as a COBRA colleague, had painted figuratively, in the manner of children's drawings, but not with the naive childhood nature of other COBRA artists, rather in an alienated way that was reminiscent of the work of the surrealist Victor Brauner . This estrangement also accompanied the later, mostly abstract painting by Nieuwenhuys, whose harsh colors and thread structures set the canvas in motion. "
"I start with my material and my color. With that I express myself. From the material I come to my subject and that is maybe contrary to what painters did in earlier days. I paint the way I write, the way I laugh. That's why I paint differently all the time, because my moods change. That's the way I feel./I start with the material and the color. That's how I express myself. From the material I come to the subject and that is perhaps the difference to what painters used to do. I paint the way I write, the way I laugh. That's the reason I paint differently because my moods change. That's how I feel."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cobra-museum Jan Nieuwenhuys accessed on February 17, 2018 (Dutch)
- ^ Cobra, Willemijn Stokvis, An International Movement in Art after World War II, pages 13, 23, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 3-07-50-9200-2
- ↑ I paint the way I lough ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 16, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nieuwenhuys, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nieuwenhuijs, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and co-founder of the artists' association CoBrA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1986 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |