Anton Pieck - original ink drawing - shed with chicken - pencil signed - framed - Sold

• Beautiful, circa 1930 drawn with Indian ink on paper, representation of a landscape with a simple shed (and chicken). Signed and titled in pencil at the bottom right. The drawing is in reasonably good, sharp condition. Particularly in the sky some light brown spots visible. Beautifully framed.

Anton Pieck was born on 19 April 1895 in Den Helder. It became clear at a young age that drawing would play an important role in Anton Pieck's life. When he was 6 years old he received drawing lessons and at the age of 11 he won first prize at an exhibition on handicrafts. For this exhibition Anton made a watercolour drawing of a still life. With this he won five tubes of paint and a fixative spray. He became a drawing teacher at the Kennemer Lyceum in Overveen after following courses at the Royal Hague Academy of Fine Arts and Bik en Vaandrager. In 1922 Anton married Jo van Poelvoorde with whom he had three children. On 24 November 1987 Anton Pieck died at the age of 92 in Overveen.


For his work, Anton Pieck travelled to Germany, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Morocco, Poland and France, among other places. On his travels, he sketched historical village and cityscapes, because he liked to capture ordinary life on the street. In 1915, Pieck went into military service in Amersfoort and later The Hague. During this period, he gave drawing lessons to the soldiers. During the Second World War, he forged identity cards for people in the resistance. These showed the quality that Anton Pieck had in him, because civil servants could not distinguish them from real cards after the war. In the years after the Second World War, Anton became increasingly famous as an artist. He developed a very unique romantic, nostalgic style, with many details. He used colours that were later named after him, namely Pieckerian red, blue and yellow. The special thing about these colours is that they are less bright, which makes it seem as if they are already very old.
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During his career, Anton Pieck received several awards. In 1929 and 1932 he won the Dr. Egerton-Crispin Prize, in 1955 he received the silver Rockox Medal as "Friend of Flanders" and in 1960 Anton Pieck was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau. This prestigious award was promoted to Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau in 1980. However, winning five tubes of paint and a fixative spray in a regional drawing competition was, according to Anton Pieck, the greatest success he achieved in his life.