Har Sanders (1929-2010) - Untitled

Title: Untitled
Image size: 50 x 70 cm; sheet size 40 x 60 cm
Signed: in pencil lower left
Numbered: 60/100
Dated: 1972
Condition: in very good condition - NOT framed

Har Sanders was a Dutch artist. Sanders studied - after his alternative service in the Rijks Psychiatrische Inrichting in Eindhoven - from 1953 at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 1958 he earned his diploma in the field of 'Illustration'.

During his alternative service he met in 1950 fellow conscientious objector (and later artist) Frank Letterie, whom he encouraged to start drawing. Letterie developed in the following years into a sculptor. In 2003, the two exhibited together at the museum for figurative art 'De Buitenplaats' in Eelde.

Har Sanders produced, among other things, screenprints, paintings, drawings, linocuts and etchings. After he had long lived and worked in Stiphout (North Brabant) and later in Bad Nieuweschans and Oude Pekela.

In October 2007, an exhibition of Sanders' work opened at the Helmond Speelhuis. To mark this, the booklet 'Har Sanders and Helmond' was published. In 't Speelhuis there is a tent canvas painting on the wall and ceiling of eight hundred square meters, making one feel as though inside a tent.