Klaas Gubbels - Woodcut: chairs - 2000

Woodcut by Klaas Gubbels from 2000. Number: 2/14. Dimensions sheet: H32 x w48.5cm. Dimensions image: H29 x w39cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


When purchased, the work can be collected in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague)
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for the
pick up, with advance payment, is very spacious, i.e. the buyer can do the work for weeks or even
months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the
above mentioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Gubbels came into contact with the visual arts through his father Kees Gubbels (1894-1974), who founded Kunsthandel De Brug during the war. In the fifties, Gubbels followed various courses. He followed the course in advertising painting from 1949 to 1951 at the Technical School in Rotterdam. He then found work at the advertising studio of the Rotterdam Bijenkorf. He then followed an evening course at the Academy of Visual Arts Rotterdam from 1951 to 1952. As a result of his parents' divorce, Gubbels left for Arnhem in February 1952, where he studied at the Academie Kunstoefening in Arnhem from 1952 to 1958. He also followed evening classes in sculpture. Gubbels did not take a final exam for fear of failing the art history section.
In the seventies Klaas Gubbels was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Rotterdam, now Willem de Kooning Academy, together with other painters and graphic artists such as Hannes Postma and sculptor Kees Franse. Gubbels works in Arnhem in his studio in the coach house of the Lichtenbeek estate or in France in the Ardèche.
Exhibitions
In 1955 Gubbels had his first exhibition together with Just Sark in the university canteen in Utrecht, and at the bookstore De Violier in The Hague, in 1965 his first abroad, in Lisbon and Paris. At the end of 2004 and in the beginning of 2005 a large retrospective exhibition of his work took place in the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem. Ten years later Gubbels' eightieth birthday was celebrated with a special theme exhibition at Paleis Soestdijk (September to November 2014).
Gubbels' work is represented in several major Dutch museums and in the corporate collections of, for example, Ahold, Akzo and TNT.