Lotti van der Gaag

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Lotti Charlotte van der Gaag (born December 18, 1923 in The Hague , † February 20, 1999 in Nieuwegein ) was a Dutch sculptor and painter .

life and work

Van der Gaag started drawing during World War II . From 1946 to 1948 she had a relationship with the Belgian painter Bram Bogart (1921–2012), who supported her on her way as an artist. In 1947 she took drawing lessons at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten and began to sculpt clay figures , which she called hanging figures . The Vrije Academie in The Hague Lotti van der Gaag attended from 1948. It was there from de Livinus van Bundt taught. The poet Simon Vinkenoog introduced her to Karel Appel , Corneille and other members of the CoBrA artist group in Paris in 1950 . Van der Graag took lessons in sculpture from Ossip Zadkine in 1951 .

In 1952 she had an exhibition of her three-dimensional works in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and various other museums and galleries in the Netherlands and Paris. Van der Gaag and the painter Kees van Bohemen (1928–1985) were a couple between 1952 and 1957 and have a daughter. From 1958 to 1960 van der Gaag was associated with Jan Cremer (* 1940). From 1974 Van der Gaag turned from sculpture to painting.

Corneille prevented Lotti van der Gaag from becoming a member of CoBrA. She was not invited to group exhibitions. Lotti van der Gaag is an artist who gave important new impulses to Dutch sculpture after 1945. Due to the close relationship of the content and design language to those of CoBrA, it is now part of the group. According to Hans Jaffé , then deputy director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, it belongs to "bij die groep jonge kunstenaars die zich oriënteert op primitieve kunstvormen, [...] waartoe ook Appel, Corneille en Constant behoren". CoBrA expert Willemijn Stokvis and museum director and art historian Wim Beeren count Lotti van der Gaag among the purest CoBrA artists.

“In the winter of 1950/51 the sculptor Lotti van der Gaag (born 1923) from The Hague joins the circle of Dutch COBRA artists who" emigrated "from Amsterdam to Paris. She moves into the rue Santeuil. The frightened beastmen she has been sculpting in clay and plaster since 1948/49 also speak the COBRA language. In her sculptures, the forms of which become very open after she briefly apprenticed to Zadkine in Paris, after 1951 rampant plant shapes increasingly replace the mythical creatures. The pictures that she began to paint in the mid-sixties identify her as a COBRA member. "

- Willemijn Stokvis

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 1993 Ouborgprijs
  • 1958 Jacob Maris Prize for Sculpture
  • 1958 Susse Prize
  • 1952 scholarship for France

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ art bus Lotti van der Gaag (1923-1999) fetched (Dutch) on February 16, 2015
  2. ↑ Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland Gaag, Charlotte van der (1923-1999) accessed on February 16, 2015 (Dutch)
  3. ↑ De groene Amsterdammer 'ik ben een neger geweest' accessed on February 16, 2015 (Dutch)
  4. ^ Cobra, Willemijn Stokvis, An International Movement in Art after World War II, page 24, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 3-07-50-9200-2
personal data
SURNAME Gaag, Lotti van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaag, Charlotte van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1999
Place of death Nieuwegein