Nicolaas Wijnberg - 1962 - large color lithography - small edition (50) - sunflowers - framed - Sold

• Nicolaas Wijnberg (Amsterdam, 22 November 1918 - Laren (North Holland), 11 June 2006) was a Dutch artist and choreographer. He was a lithographer, like his father, but also made paintings, posters, sets, drawings, illustrations and book cover designs. He also sculpted.

Life course
Part of the interior of the SHV headquarters in Utrecht with floor mosaic (1960)
Wijnberg was educated at the Graphic School in Amsterdam, where he received drawing lessons from Jos Rovers, and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in the same city. As a painter he was self-taught.
Wijnberg was active in several areas. His paintings were exhibited for the first time in 1942. After having been in hiding during the last years of the Second World War, he founded the world's first youth ballet group, the famous Scapino Ballet, together with Hans Snoek and Hans van Norden in 1945. With Van Norden and Theo Kurpershoek, he also started the painters' association De Realisten in the late 1940s, a modern-figurative group that opposed the abstract art of Cobra and Vrije Beelden. His work was exhibited both in his own country and abroad. In 1952, he was co-founder of the Association of Practitioners of Monumental Arts.
Wijnberg has illustrated and/or provided cover drawings for numerous poetry collections and novels. He started doing so in 1943, by decorating the clandestinely published novella Nymphale by A. van Pelt with drawings and vignettes. He also designed covers for the books of WF Hermans, some under the pseudonym Montevino. Wijnberg also gave the Literary Series De Witte Olifant from publisher GA van Oorschot a face.
In addition to his work as an artist, Wijnberg was the visual arts editor of the literary magazine Tirade from 1958, ran an art gallery from 1965 to 1970 and later held the first professorship of scenography at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Wijnberg was awarded the HN Werkman Prize 1966 and in 2000 he received the oeuvre prize from the Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Nicolaas Wijnberg died at the age of 87 in the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren, where he had already lived for several years.