Bouke van der Sloot (1908-1995) - Fries landschap

Photos are part of the description. In good condition with a little light craquelure in the clouded parts. The dimensions without a frame are 50 x 65 cm (h x w).

Beautiful fresh summer landscape with blooming flowers along a canal.

Bouke van der Sloot (1908-1995)
Bouke van der Sloot (1908-1995) was the son of Andries van der Sloot. He learned to paint from his father. The family moved to Leeuwarden, where Bouke initially worked for a couple of years in an office at an ironmonger. He disliked that too; he became a visual artist as well. After the war Bouke van der Sloot joined It Boun fan Fryske Keunstners. In his youth Van der Sloot was mainly a fijnschilder (fine painter). Over the years he developed in the direction of Expressionism, but his love of fijnschilderen remained. He regarded himself as an expressionist in the manner of the Bergense School. The landscape and still lifes became his great loves. His first commission came from his contacts with the literary world: a calendar belonging to the magazine ‘lt Heitelan’. Later the calendars with illustrations by Bouke van der Sloot, an edition of Frico and the Institute for the Agricultural Cooperative (ILC), became a well-known name in Friesland.