Theo Wolvecamp (1925-1992) - Figuratief Abstract





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Specialises in works on paper and (New) School of Paris artists. Former gallery owner.
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Theo Wolvecamp: (Hengelo, August 30, 1925 – Amsterdam, October 11, 1992).
Abstracte Composition " Lithograph , Signed, Dated 89, Numbered ea Copies, Sheet size: 42 x 70 Cm,
Nicely framed and in good condition.
From a young age Theo Wolvecamp began painting. In 1947 he stopped after two years of study at the Academy “Kunstoefening Arnhem” and moved to Amsterdam. There he became involved with the Experimental Group in Holland and in 1948 with the Cobra movement. In 1949 he was one of the participants in the international Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1950 he worked for six months in Brittany (Pont-Aven). From 1953 to 1954 the young painter worked in Paris.
In 1954 he returned to the relative isolation of his birthplace Hengelo. From Twente he participated in many national and international group exhibitions.
Wolvecamp’s oeuvre can be divided into several periods. Directly after the war Pablo Picasso’s work made a strong impression on him. Later he became interested in the painter Joan Miró. Furthermore, Kandinsky had a great influence on his work. After a Miró-like beginning, Wolvecamp produced abstract-expressionist works in often dark tones and with thickly applied layers of paint. In his compositions (especially from 1955 onward) fantasy beings and other figurative elements appear, reminding one of the paintings by Asger Jorn, the Danish COBRA member.
His first “modern” exhibition was in Neede and Eibergen, featuring alongside his own work also pieces by, among others, Jan Bolink, Riemko Holtrop, Jan van der Leest and Eef de Weerd. He renewed contact and friendships with Hengelo painters and met the collector couple Hans and Alice de Jong, advising them in building their international collection of contemporary art.
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Theo Wolvecamp: (Hengelo, August 30, 1925 – Amsterdam, October 11, 1992).
Abstracte Composition " Lithograph , Signed, Dated 89, Numbered ea Copies, Sheet size: 42 x 70 Cm,
Nicely framed and in good condition.
From a young age Theo Wolvecamp began painting. In 1947 he stopped after two years of study at the Academy “Kunstoefening Arnhem” and moved to Amsterdam. There he became involved with the Experimental Group in Holland and in 1948 with the Cobra movement. In 1949 he was one of the participants in the international Cobra exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1950 he worked for six months in Brittany (Pont-Aven). From 1953 to 1954 the young painter worked in Paris.
In 1954 he returned to the relative isolation of his birthplace Hengelo. From Twente he participated in many national and international group exhibitions.
Wolvecamp’s oeuvre can be divided into several periods. Directly after the war Pablo Picasso’s work made a strong impression on him. Later he became interested in the painter Joan Miró. Furthermore, Kandinsky had a great influence on his work. After a Miró-like beginning, Wolvecamp produced abstract-expressionist works in often dark tones and with thickly applied layers of paint. In his compositions (especially from 1955 onward) fantasy beings and other figurative elements appear, reminding one of the paintings by Asger Jorn, the Danish COBRA member.
His first “modern” exhibition was in Neede and Eibergen, featuring alongside his own work also pieces by, among others, Jan Bolink, Riemko Holtrop, Jan van der Leest and Eef de Weerd. He renewed contact and friendships with Hengelo painters and met the collector couple Hans and Alice de Jong, advising them in building their international collection of contemporary art.
