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The painter Willem Witjens lived the last twenty years of his life in the Oude Huis te Bern, a small residential area near Nederhemert.
He started restoring that house in 1941 and after it was destroyed in the last years of the war, he decided to completely rebuild the historic building from 1945 onwards.
He would continue to live and work there until his death in 1962.
Witjens originally came from The Hague, where he took his first steps in the art world around the First World War.
He made paintings, watercolors and etchings.
His preference was for painting landscapes, especially winter landscapes.
His work was usually simple in design, and therefore appears clear and calm.