An important commemorative publication by the Stedelijk Museum which was published shortly after the death of Willem Sandberg by the Stedelijk Museum. It is a text he spoke on the occasion of the acceptance of his donation of his art collection to the Stedelijk Museum. THis Mei 1984 publication is now available at www.ftn-books.com.
A few years ago i wrote a blog on Orlik, but what i did not realise was that Orlik made one of the most iconic portraits ever. His Mahler portrait was used on many occasions. Posters, record sleeves , program booklets. But there is more to Orlik. Just leaf through the recently acquired boo i now have for sale at www.ftn-books.com ad you know why.
Emil Orlik was a painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany. Emil Orlik was the son of a tailor. He first studied art at the private art school of Heinrich Knirr, where one of his fellow pupils was Paul Klee.
From 1891, he studied at the Munich Academy under Wilhelm Lindenschmit. Later he learned engraving from Johann Leonhard Raab and proceeded to experiment with various printmaking processes.
After performing his military service in Prague, he returned to Munich, where he worked for the magazine Jugend. He spent most of 1898, travelling through Europe, visiting the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, and Paris. During this time he became aware of Japanese art, and the impact it was having in Europe, and decided to visit Japan to learn woodcut techniques. He left for Asia in March 1900, stopping off in Hong Kong, before reaching Japan, where he stayed until February 1901.
Erik Wijntjes (born 1955) was born in Rotterdam and graduated in 1982 from the Rotterdam Academie van Beeldende Kunsten. After completing his studies, he worked in Finland and England, then returned to his hometown. Wijntjes works as a sculptor and mainly uses wood. His work can be simply divided into two sections; the paintings he made in Finland (1982) and Wales (1983/84) and the works that he later produced in his Rotterdam studio.
In his work, he uses a chain saw, a rather rough tool that leaves cutouts, yet his works often have very natural forms.
The Rotterdam Boymans van Beuningen Museum has quite a large collection of his works. Since 1982 he also lives and works partly in his studio in France.
www.ftn-books.com has one publication on Erik Wijntjes available.
Jean Ruiter (Amsterdam 1942) is mainly known for his monumental photoworks, that make a connection between important moments in art history and the present time.
Jonathan Green, director of the UCR / California Museum of Photography put it this way: “Ruiter is more interested in borrowing classic images to offer ironic commentary on the present”.
Jean Ruiter was a man of grand visions. Abroad, especially in the United States, he was better known and enjoyed a greater reputation than in the Netherlands.
Jean died of lung cancer in 2005 on April 12.
A short biography on this increasingly more important photographer/artist from the Netherlands. www.ftn-books recently found a publication on the exhibition which was held together with Gertrude Blom in DE OUDE KERK, which is now for sale at www.ftn-books.com
A blog written as a souvenir to one of my earliest purchases in art. In the early Seventies i started collecting and was a frequent visitor of ARTA gallery in Den Haag. They has their own selection of artists of whom they published art in edition and among them was Diana Vandenberg. Being an artist of the gallery they held a small stock and i bought a very affordable early Fifties etching by Vandenberg with them. Intrigued by the print and being informed of the location of her studio. I found that she was living with artist JOHFRA nearby in Den Haag and in one of the rooms of their house she had a gallery with works that were for sale. I visited her and bought the smallest painting that i could afford. Why this story …… Two reasons. First of all i still admire her works and techniques and because of that i have some nice publications available at www.ftn-books, but secondly….. i sold both the Vandenberg originals to a Swiss collector. The blog is now some sort of farewell to 2 little Vandenberg works that i kept in collection for almost Fifty Years.
However the books on Vandenberg i have are still available.
Most people do not know his name, but Janco is an important name in art since he was one of the founding members of the DADA mouvement in Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich in 1916. He then moved back to Romania , where he lived from 1922 until he fled in 1941 from National Socialism to Palestine. He founded an artist village near Haifa and lived until his death in Israel. Perhaps that is the reason why most of his works can be found outside Europe. Still his work is important and that is finally recognised by some of the large Museums in Europe which held some exhibitions on Janco and his graphic Works in the past 2 decades. Not confident enough to publish a large run of the catalogue, the KUNSTHAL partcipated in a small limited edition of only 320 (numbered 297) copies of which i finally found a copy. This book is now for sale at www.ftn-books.com
I have written numerous blogs on the great galeries in the world from the past to present, but this time it is no gallery but and Art Dealer who shaped the art landscape in the Netherlands for over 45 years now. Ivo Bouwman stands for the best in 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings and has played a part in building many great collections over the last 45 years. Just take a look at his site: https://www.ivobouwman.nl/en/
and leaf through his catalogues of which some examples are now available at www.ftn-books.com and you see the impressive list of great artists and their art and the quality he stands for. If there is one person i can recommend for your appraisal of 19th and early 20th century art it must be Ivo Bouman , because of his expertise on this period.
Born in 1953 in Saïda, Algeria, Jean-Michel Alberola lives and works in Paris. During his thirty-year career he has produced a protean body of work that straddles figurative, abstract and conceptual art. Gouaches, sculptures, artists’ books and films represent the different facets of his exploration of the fragility of beauty, ambiguity of perception, the role of the artist and the purpose of art. With the mixture of humour and lyricism characteristic of an engaged artist, he combines artistic reflections with political and social questions, making this one of the more interesting and iportant artists from his generatio. www,ftn-books.com has a few titles on Alberola available.
The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. Leaving Vienna immediately after the Anschluss with Germany in 1938, she and her mother Henriette arrived in England in 1939 where they were to spend the rest of their lives.
Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in Liverpool, London, New York and Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky’s oeuvre which comprises portraits, self-portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and allegorical paintings. During her lifetime, the main body of her work was kept together by the artist then passed to the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. Much of that work is now distributed among public collections in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Holland and in one case, the United States.
www.ftn-books.com has the Franke gallery exhibition catalogue now available.
Pessers was born on 3 January 1899 in Tilburg. She attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Her teachers included Gustave De Smet, Jan van Delft, Antoon Derkinderen, Gerard Jacobs [nl], Constant Permeke, Henri Van Haelen, and Albert Verschuuren [nl]. Her work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 1941 she married P.M.C. Jansen.
Pessers died on 22 May 1986 in Heeze. Her work is in the Noordbrabants Museum and the Van Abbemuseum
www.ftn-books.com has the Noordbrabants MUseum catalogue from 1981 available
