Bram van Velde, artist and art
Born Oct 19 1895, Birth Zoetenwoude-Rijndijk, Netherlands.
Died Dec 28 1981 deathGrimaud Haute Provence, France.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Printmakers, Existential Art, Documenta Kassel, Lyrical Abstraction,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
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[no title] 1975-6, Lithograph on paper
Bram Van Velde was born in Zoeterwoude, and left the Netherlands in 1922 never to return. He went to stay for a few years in Worpswede, the artists’ community in Germany, a period that was to be of crucial importance for his artistic development. He subsequently left for Paris in 1924, where he met the Irish writer Samuel Beckett at the end of the 1930s: ‘a Great Encounter, in capitals’, as Van Velde described it.
Born in Holland in 1895, Bram van Velde’s work is notable for its highly personal Expressionist style wherein powerful emotions, expressed through the use of colour, are regulated by inherent structural solidity. Over the course of his long career – he died in Grimaud in 1981 – he resided for extended periods of time in Geneva where he maintained close contacts with art circles…
Samuel Beckett
Sans titre, 1975, Collection d’Art Nestlé Musée Jenisch.
