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Jan Cremer (1940 – 2024)
Title of the artwork: Tulipano Silvana 2
Year 1999
Technique: Screen printing
Signature: Hand signed
Edition: 98/125
Condition In very good condition
Image size: 39.0 x 27.0 cm
Frame: 64.0 cm x 50.0 cm.
This silkscreen is framed in an aluminum frame in excellent condition. Frame is 2.5 cm wide and 3.0 cm high. Beautiful silkscreen by the recently deceased artist. Ready to hang on the wall.
Jan Cremer
He lived and worked in Amsterdam.
Jan Cremer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem. Even at a young age, Jan Cremer was an extremely original and obsessed artist, who would do anything to be able to work. At his first one-man exhibition in Galerie De Posthoorn in The Hague in 1958, the critics - barely recovered from the riots surrounding CoBrA - spoke of a 'wild beast'. His participation in the Hague Salon (1958) became a scandal. A year later he exhibited in the Hague Gemeentemuseum and in 1960 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In the meantime, Cremer worked on his first book Ik Jan Cremer, which was published in the Netherlands in 1964 and has since been published in millions of copies in many languages. In the same period, more than a hundred exhibitions of his visual art followed in museums and galleries at home and abroad. With the first proceeds from his book, Jan Cremer left for America at the end of 1964.
In New York he starts painting Dutch landscapes. This very colourful and especially tightly composed 'Dutch Realism', with cows, farmers' wives and tulip fields, forms a break with the strongly abstract expressionist work from the previous years. The theme of Dutch landscapes returns again and again in Cremer's complete oeuvre, but the steppes, deserts and mountain ranges of Siberia and Mongolia, regions he frequently travels, are also a permanent source of inspiration.
In between he stays for shorter or longer periods in Berlin, London or Amsterdam where he mainly makes lithographs. In 1972 Cremer makes his first film documentary 'The long white trail', about his expedition with the Inuit in Northwest Greenland. As a reporter he traveled the world frequently. Cremer knows how to combine his work with his love of travel and wandering. He is on the road for six months a year, the other months he divides his time between painting and writing, preferably in the South of France or Switzerland. Cremer lives and works - when he is not traveling - in New York and Paris.