ARTIST: Jan Meijer (Netherlands, Italian, 1927 - 1995)
TITLE: Abstract Composition
YEAR: 1962
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Few minor paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 40 x 32 inches / 101 x 81 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso
NAME VARIANTS: Jan Meyer
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BIOGRAPHY:
Jan Meyer (Jan Meijer) was born in Assen 1927 and grew upon his father's farm in the countryside. He began drawing during the German occupation. Around 1944, he visited the studio of Werkman, whose advice influenced him. Meyer developed a working method that took his work away and beyond the careful provincial life depicted in his earlier work. After the war, he met Evert Rinsema, one of the oldest members of "De Stijl" and an old friend of Theo van Doesburg. Through him, he discovered and admired the work of Mondrian and became acquainted with the Dada movement in Holland. Rinsema also introduced Meyer to Kirchner's expressionist work of art. Meyer's life became a search for equilibrium between the nostalgic values of a balanced world and his busy, expressive character. During a short period, Meyer studied at the Rijksakademie and the Rijksopleinding voor Tekenleraren in Amsterdam. At the end of the 1940's, Meyer's work was exhibited together with the work of the "de Ploeg" artists. His palette was dominated by mauve, black and dark blue, with yellow planes breaking through. The rough style of the French artist Dubuffet is visible on Meyer's paintings of the 1950's, even though he didn't know the painter. From 1948, Meyer frequently exposed his work at the The Eendt gallery based in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition abroad took place in 1957 in Paris, at the Dina Vierny gallery.