Adrianus Zwart
Adrianus Johannes Zwart ( Arie Zwart, Aad and AJ Zwart Zwart Rijswijk, born August 30, 1903 in Rijswijk, † August 27 1981 in Laren ) was a Dutch painter and in his early work, one of the last representatives of the Hague School.
Life
Only Adrianus Zwart studied with Otto Kriens, his first pictures date back to the year 1915. Between 1918 and 1919 he studied at the Royal Academy of Beeldende Kunsten. Considering that Zwart could not live from painting, he also worked as a graphic designer in an advertising agency in Amsterdam. From 1926 he was able to fully devote to painting and traveled to the Netherlands, from 1933, he had this, a car and a caravan which he used for these activities. After the birth of his third child in 1935 this became too small and he decided in 1936 to purchase an old barge, which he had developed as a houseboat and studio. The mobility of the boat he used to go to the berth and paint there. Below in Gorinchem, Nijmegen, Arnhem, the IJssel and Hattem, as well as the Meuse to Namur. He wintered mostly in Meppel.
From 1949 he put the bark permanently in Voorburg and from now traveled mainly abroad. In 1962, he put the bark on the Singel canal in Woerden, where he lived with his family. Adrianus Zwart had three children. From 1974 he lived until his death at the Künstlerhaus Rosa Spier Huis, where he died in 1981.
In Germany the works of Adrianus Zwart through the gallery Wissing were performed in Bocholt.
Work
Adrianus Zwart is a member of the Hague School and is in his Rijswijk epoch a typical representative of Dutch painting as it existed until the mid 20th century. Not only the painting but also the motives of the rural life of the Netherlands were dwindling, so the interiors shown of kitchens, living rooms and stables to the past are likely to have heard. With the landscapes, Zwart, however, is more of a representative of the French plein- air painting, which continued into abroad in his extensive travels. Had Zwart already added the muted dark colors to color accents, the Dutch color scheme differs completely here a strong color scheme.
Works (selection)
- Houthakkers in herfstlandschap
- Stal te friesem, 51 x 50 cm, 1947
- Huisjes te Rijswijk: houses along a canal, 51 x 71 cm, 1948
- Boers interior, 70 x 60cm
- Visserswoning te Wierdum, 70 x 60cm
- Rode stoel in de trekschuit
- Farmstead in autumn colors, 80 x 41cm
- Het Dorp Dwigeloo
- Hoorn, 57 x 71 cm
- De baai van San Tropez, South Frankrijk 40 x 80 cm
- Parlor in Brabant / Netherlands
- Kooltuintje, 31 x 40 cm