Dick van Luijn - Color linocut, Moonlight. - Sold

Sharply cut color linocut from the fifties by Dick van Luijn. Signed with pencil lr and handshake. Printed on Japanese paper and in good condition, work is slightly discoloured. Dick van Luijn Utrecht 29-09-1896 – Utrecht 14-08-1981 Dirk Govert (Dick) van Luijn was a Dutch artist. As a young man, Van Luijn took drawing lessons at the Toynbee association in Utrecht and was a student at the Applied Arts School there. He later became a member of the famous company De Onhoudenen (since 1927) and was vice-chairman of De Grafische (1937) for several years. He was also a board member (1951-1964) of the Utrechtse Kring and organized many exhibitions of artists he valued. In the 1920s he was closely involved in innovations in the visual arts, including through his contacts with Willem van Leusden and Gerrit Rietveld. He regularly visited Paris in the 1930s and immediately had good contact with Piet Mondriaan. They take long walks together through Paris, past museums and galleries. Contact with Mondriaan has definitively returned him to the figurative. He worked as a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, etcher, lithographer, wood and copper engraver, ex libris designer and book binding designer. To earn a living, he was often forced to decorate shop interiors (in a style related to that of Gerrit Rietveld) and draw advertisements.