Johan Buning - Intriguing autodidact - oil paint - portrait of carel Rijken - signed - Sold
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- Description
- Johan Buning (1893-1963)
| Type of artwork | Painting |
| Period | 1900 to 1944 |
| Technique | Oil paint |
| Support | Canvas |
| Framed | Framed |
| Dimensions | 50 x 40 cm (h x w) |
| Incl. frame | 60 x 50 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
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- Johan Buning himself started painting relatively late. Initially in an expressive realistic style, but in his latter days he fell more into the rear of the late impressionists. He preferably painted and watercolored tranquil interiors, still lifes, serenely deserted gardens, parks and terraces with abandoned chairs and benches, sheltered Limburg, French and Italian landscapes and portrait studies. He felt that the latter never made any sense to him. According to tradition, Buning was a hypersensitive, often melancholic artist, with the necessary fear of the outside world. Always looking for the beauty of ordinary, everyday things. For him it was about the friendly familiarity of the privacy of his studio with house plants, old furniture, or the intimacy of old gardens and country houses. He tried to convert this into a saturated, rich and warm lyricism of color, light and composition, of space and sound. At the same time strong and delicate, gloomy and sunny, and changing mood, which expressed his interiority. When viewing Johan Buning's works, it is mainly the atmosphere that strikes you. He did not get carried away with trends or fashions. His work therefore lacks any connection with the current art movements of later generations from the 1950s and 1960s, in which CoBrA predominated, especially in Amsterdam. Abstract expressionism and minimalism emerged in and out of America and the youth revolutions of pop and op art, Nul and Zero, appeared on the scene. Buning has been called a modest kindred spirit of Bonnet. He remained faithful to his beloved motifs until the end of his life, although the form changed in the last years of his life. Otto de Kat pointed out that it then became more constructive and the colors took on a different meaning due to the stronger contrast effect of the more closed surfaces. And that Johan Buning had a healthy dose of 'inimitable' humor. The artist regularly organized fancy dress parties on pleasant evenings, during which those present would enthusiastically draw. He was a frequent guest at exhibitions. The highlight occurred in 1961, when he represented the Netherlands at the Sao Paulo Biennale together with six other painters. Two painters from The Hague also belonged to this group. First of all, Jan van Heel (1898 – 1990), a real 'committee tiger', who knew the whole world, and then Hubert Hierck (1917-1978), who also had no interest in the 'ping-pong tables' of the minimalists. Never before had one of the seven been invited to the Biennale in Venice or Sao Paulo, the most important contemporary art exhibitions in the 1960s. That year the jury chose to send painters who 'had remained wallflowers due to the constellation of time'!
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| Pick up | The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Purmerend, The Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
| Price | > 10KG or bigger than 1.00 x 0.50 meter
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