Piet Ouborg

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Pieter (Piet) Ouborg (born March 10, 1893 in Dordrecht , † June 3, 1956 in The Hague ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist of Surrealism . His work is counted among the "New Hague School" (Nieuwe Haagse School).

Life

Ouborg was a teacher of English and French in Dordrecht. To escape military service in World War I , he went to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) as a teacher in 1916 . There he began to draw and paint as an autodidact . During a vacation in the Netherlands in 1923, Ouborg began to experiment with cubism . In another vacation in 1931 he discovered in Brussels to Surrealism , with it especially the work of the Catalan painter Joan Miró influenced. After his final return to the Netherlands in 1938, he settled first in Haarlem , then in Amsterdam and finally in 1939 in The Hague , where he taught art history and drawing.

During the Second World War , Ouborg met the painters Karel Appel and Corneille (later members of the CoBrA group ) and also had connections with Willem Hussem and Jaap Nanninga . In 1945 Ouborg ended his teaching activities and devoted himself entirely to his own art production. He was a member of the artists' associations Pulchri Studio , Vrij Beelden (1947–1955) and Liga Nieuw Beelden (1955–1956). In 1947 he exhibited with the group Experiments in the Hague Art Association (Haagsche Kunstkring). His work was close to CoBrA , but he did not become a member of the group. In the 1950s he was part of the De Nieuwe Ploeg group in Voorburg . In 1950, he was awarded the Jacob Maris Prize for the Art of Drawing for his drawing "Father and Son", which was not undisputed at the time . He then had extensive solo exhibitions: in 1954 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and in 1965 at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Publicly owned works

Ouborg Prize

In 1990 the city of The Hague donated an art prize called “Ouborgprijs”. The first prize winner was the filmmaker Frans Zwartjes. The prize was initially awarded annually to Hague artists of national and international importance; Since 1997 it has been awarded every two years, it is endowed with EUR 4,750 and connected to an exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morton C. Abromson (Ed.): Phaidon dictionary of twentieth-century art , Phaidon, 1977, p. 289, ISBN 978-0-7148-1822-1
  2. ↑ Geurt Imanse: Van Gogh to Cobra: Dutch painting 1880-1950 , Hatje, 1980, p. 88
  3. ↑ website stroom.nl
personal data
SURNAME Ouborg, Piet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ouborg, Pieter; Ouburg, Piet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch surrealist painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1956
Place of death The hague