Jan Cremer (1940) - Toscane





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Jan Cremer’s Toscane is a limited, hand-signed woodcut from 1999, edition 9/60, measuring 112 x 139 cm with frame.
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Jan Cremer – Tuscany
Engraving in a limited and signed edition. In this work, Jan Cremer depicts the Tuscan landscape with bold, expressive lines and a strong sense of rhythm and light. The composition breathes the Mediterranean atmosphere that is so characteristic of his Italian period.
A characteristic graphic work in which nature, energy and craft come together.
Jan Cremer, writer and artist, was born in 1940 in Enschede. His father died in 1942, which meant that Jan’s upbringing was entirely his mother’s responsibility. Jan’s mother, Rosza Csordás Szomorkay, was Hungarian and studied at the conservatory in Budapest. After the war, Jan Cremer was placed in foster families and colony homes by child protection services. In the fifties he held various jobs, served with the marines and spent some time as a sailor on the open seas. In 1958 he enrolled for a few months at the art academy in Arnhem and The Hague. Cremer lived for a time on Ibiza and left in 1964 for New York. Thereafter he lived alternately in America and Europe. As a writer, Cremer became famous overnight with
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Jan Cremer – Tuscany
Engraving in a limited and signed edition. In this work, Jan Cremer depicts the Tuscan landscape with bold, expressive lines and a strong sense of rhythm and light. The composition breathes the Mediterranean atmosphere that is so characteristic of his Italian period.
A characteristic graphic work in which nature, energy and craft come together.
Jan Cremer, writer and artist, was born in 1940 in Enschede. His father died in 1942, which meant that Jan’s upbringing was entirely his mother’s responsibility. Jan’s mother, Rosza Csordás Szomorkay, was Hungarian and studied at the conservatory in Budapest. After the war, Jan Cremer was placed in foster families and colony homes by child protection services. In the fifties he held various jobs, served with the marines and spent some time as a sailor on the open seas. In 1958 he enrolled for a few months at the art academy in Arnhem and The Hague. Cremer lived for a time on Ibiza and left in 1964 for New York. Thereafter he lived alternately in America and Europe. As a writer, Cremer became famous overnight with

