Klaas Gubbels - Watercolor: Volksbond cup - 2007

Watercolour by Klaas Gubbels. Dimensions sheet: H28 x 38.5cm. Dimensions representation: H13.5 x w19.5cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchased, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The period for collection, with advance payment, is very generous, in other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl

Klaas Gubbels (Rotterdam, January 19, 1934) is a Dutch artist. He is best known for his still lifes of tables, chairs and coffee pots.

Life course

Klaas Gubbels experienced the bombing of his hometown Rotterdam at the age of six. His youth was spent on the one hand between burnt-out and ruined houses in the city centre, on the other hand with his grandparents, who lived on the Balkengat (now Balkenstraat), near a small harbour of a timber merchant on the Delfshavense Schie.

Gubbels came into contact with the visual arts through his father Kees Gubbels (1894-1974), who founded Kunsthandel De Brug during the war. In the fifties, Gubbels followed various courses. He followed the course in advertising painting from 1949 to 1951 at the Technical School in Rotterdam. He then found work at the advertising studio of the Rotterdam Bijenkorf. He then followed an evening course at the Academy of Visual Arts Rotterdam from 1951 to 1952. As a result of his parents' divorce, Gubbels left for Arnhem in February 1952, where he studied at the Academie Kunstoefening in Arnhem from 1952 to 1958. He also followed evening classes in sculpture. Gubbels did not take a final exam for fear of failing the art history section.

In the 1970s, Klaas Gubbels was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts Rotterdam, now the Willem de Kooning Academy, together with other painters and graphic artists such as Hannes Postma and sculptor Kees Franse. Gubbels works in Arnhem in his studio in the coach house of the Lichtenbeek estate or in France in the Ardèche.[2]

Exhibitions

In 1955 Gubbels had his first exhibition together with Just Sark in the university canteen in Utrecht, and at the bookstore De Violier in The Hague, in 1965 his first abroad, in Lisbon and Paris. At the end of 2004 and in the beginning of 2005 a large retrospective exhibition of his work took place in the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem. Ten years later Gubbels' eightieth birthday was celebrated with a special theme exhibition at Paleis Soestdijk (September to November 2014).

Gubbels' work is represented in several major Dutch museums and in the corporate collections of, for example, Ahold, Akzo and TNT.

Work

Over time, Klaas Gubbels' artworks have become increasingly abstract. At first glance, it can be seen as one-sided, due to the limited number of visual themes. But this is also the strength and charm of his artworks, according to some. He also uses a variety of techniques and materials, such as: photography, lithograph, woodcut, mural, collage, objet trouvé, glass and metal.

His work has similarities with works by artists such as Giorgio Morandi and Amedeo Modigliani and seems influenced by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and George Segal.

Other

In 2013, on the occasion of Jan Siebelink's seventy-fifth birthday, a special edition was published with fragments from Kneeling on a Bed of Violins and ten woodcuts by Gubbels inspired by it.