Peter de Rijcke - Ets, landweg met boerderij. - Sold

Peter de Rijcke, born 1 January 1945 in Zeist, painter, graphic artist, etcher, photographer and writer. Education: Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam (1965-1970) and the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (1 year figure drawing). Subjects: landscapes, city and harbor views and portraits. In 1967 he had his first exhibition in Zaandam, where he lived at the time, and in 1969 he debuted in the Amsterdam gallery Sergej. Since 1972 he has lived and worked in Hoorn, where he developed a figurative painting style with subjects such as landscapes, city and harbor views and portraits. Until 1977, Peter de Rijcke worked part-time at the Dagblad voor West-Friesland, for which he wrote visual art and theater reviews and drew political cartoons. At that time he also took the initiative to set up studio accommodation in Hoorn and was involved in the establishment of the Kunstuitleen West-Friesland in 1975 and the Artists Association in Hoorn in 1979. Peter de Rijcke is a member of the Dutch Association of Sea Painters, the Artists Center Bergen and the Artists Association Hoorn en Omstreken. He regularly exhibits at home and abroad, including the CJ Tung Maritime Museum Shanghai (China), the Jiangnan Museum of Art in Wuxi (China), Snug Harbor Cultural Center NYC (USA), the Mystic Maritime Gallery (USA), the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (BRD), the Maritime Museums in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Pulchri Studio in The Hague, the Northern Maritime Museum in Groningen and the Westfries Museum Hoorn. He also wrote books about the sculptor Truus Menger, the artist Ton van Kesteren and the designer JC Stoffels. Literature: Shine 1969-1970, Supplement; Jacobs 1993, vol. 2, p. 289.