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Jef Diederen Black saint 1988 acrylic / collage on canvas 140 x 84 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Amsterdam
Jef Diederen 1920 - 2009 Jef Diederen was a painter and graphic artist. He was born in Heerlen and studied from 1939 to 1943 at the Middelbare Kunstnijverheidsschool in Maastricht. There he met the artists Pieter Defesche and Ger Lataster. In 1943 he continued his education at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, but left again a year later to continue his education in 1947. In Amsterdam he also met Karel Appel and Corneille as his fellow students. Until 1955 he mainly painted landscape gouaches, drawings. They are mostly realistic landscapes from his native region of South Limburg. After that he developed in an abstract direction, with bold colours in which the landscape remained a great inspiration. The dimensions of his oil paintings were often idiosyncratic and therefore stood out. He also combined canvases of various sizes with each other. Jef Diederen's art is lyrical-abstract with a friendly and soft appearance. As an idiosyncratic artist, he never sought permanent affiliation with groups or movements. In addition to his many paintings and works on paper, he also carried out various commissions for murals and stained glass windows.