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Bennebroek, NetherlandsView all items from this sellerJohannes Alphonsus (Jan) Sierhuis (Amsterdam, December 21, 1928 – July 4, 2023) was a Dutch painter.
Sierhuis grew up during the years of the depression. His father died when he was two. He already sculpted and drew in his early childhood and on his ninth birthday he received a painting set. As a boy he often wandered through Amsterdam. He grew up with cityscapes such as those of Israëls and Breitner. Although Sierhuis has traveled all over the world, he always considered himself an Amsterdammer. He attended trade school to become a house painter, which gave him a lot of knowledge of materials.
Together with Appel, Corneille and Lucebert , he was at the center of post-war developments in art. In 1945 he was admitted to the evening course at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, which he left after a conflict. He was involved with the Experimentals in 1947 and with the CoBrA group in 1948. However, he was too young to join it. He later co-founded the Amsterdam artist group Groep Scorpio in 1962 with Frans de Boo, Roger Chailloux, John Grosman, Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe, Karl Pelgrom, Pierre van Soest, Aat Verhoog and Leo de Vries. They were "Angry Young Men" who wanted to approach exhibitions differently.
Jan Sierhuis taught at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem in 1968 and was a supervisor at Psychopolis, the Vrije Academie in The Hague, from 1970 to 1979. In 1983 Sierhuis became a teacher at the Rietveld Academy and in 1984 at the Rijksakademie, an institute for practical studies, both in Amsterdam.
Sierhuis received the Royal Subsidy for Painting for his work in 1956, and in 1957 he received a medal from the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze portrait prize. In 1987 he was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize. He also received an honorable mention at the Prix de Rome. In 2002 he became an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Jan Sierhuis was primarily an expressionist painter, inspired by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, van Gogh and Picasso, among others. In his younger years he painted naturalistic landscapes. For a while in the 1950s and 1960s he worked almost exclusively abstractly. In the mid-1960s he switched from expressionism to a period with mainly human figures. Sierhuis switched to more figurative themes, such as dancing figures, portraits and landscapes. He spent many summers in Spain. His passion for flamenco has influenced many of his works and also led him to work in three dimensions.
Screen print from 1993, numbered 34/40
Screen print size W 55cm x H 75 cm
Framed 80 x 103 cm
ConditionExcellentColorsMulti Color, BlackMaterialPaper, Glass, WoodNumber of items1ArtistsJan SierhuisOrientationPortraitArt sizeLargeHeight103 cmWidth80 cm