Jan Wiegers

Mixed media on paper, watercolor/pen. Signed and dated '32, study sheet why children.
Dimensions including frame: 32.5 cm x 40 cm. Fitted with so-called museum glass.

Jan Wiegers 1893-1959 was a Dutch expressionist painter. He was one of the pioneers and founders of De Ploeg in Groningen. Wiegers was educated at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, but he also visited the academies of Rotterdam and The Hague. During a stay in Davos, Switzerland in 1920, he became friends with the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by whom his art was strongly influenced. K