Jacob Gerard 'Job' Hansen

Groningen 1899-1960
a.o. swann, people, with petrol diluted oil paint on panel 50.6 x 60.6 cm, signed on the reverse and dated on the rev. 12, 14 Juli 1949, 1957, Aug '59

annotation: verso: '12,14 Juli 1949, 1957 Aug '59 J.G. Hansen o.a. zwaan, menschen'

literature: Han Steenbruggen e.a., 'Job G. Hansen 1899-1960', De Ploeg 4, Groninger Museum, Groningen 1997, Oeuvrecatalogus pag. 134, cat.nr. 189 ('Gracht met zwanen, in de schaduw mensen').

exhibitions: Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Job Hansen', 1-25 maart 1963.

Job Hansen is one of the most fascinating painters of De Ploeg. As an architect he became a member of this Groningen painting society in 1923, and it was fellow member Jan Altink who then encouraged him to paint. As a self-taught artist, Hansen proceeded to develop a highly personal idiom based on an unconventional way of handling paint and support. He preferred to paint on plywood, first giving it a white ground. Onto this he applied diluted paint using both a broad brush as well as his fingertips and palms. For him the white base was a crucial visual element: it represented light and space, out of which his depictions loomed, sometimes barely recognisable. Hansen chiefly painted floral still lifes and landscapes.

insurance value: € 7,000.-
starting bid: € 3,500.-