Wessel Couzijn - 1960s - monochrome etching - very small edition (10) - signed - LARGE! - Sold
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- Description
- Wessel Couzijn (1912-1984)
| Type of artwork | Prints (signed) |
| Period | 1945 to 1999 |
| Technique | Drypoint |
| Support | Paper |
| Style | Abstract |
| Subject | Abstract |
| Framed | Only in Passe-partout |
| Dimensions | 50 x 50 cm (h x w) |
| Passe-partout | 70 x 65 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
| Edition | 10 |
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- Wessel Couzijn (1912-1984) was born in Amsterdam in 1912. From 1915 he lived in the United States where he took his first drawing lessons at the Art Students League. In 1929 he moved back to the Netherlands. The following year he started the painting course at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Here he was taught by professor Jan Bronner, a respected traditional sculptor. Couzijn enrolled again in the sculpture department.
In 1936 he won the Prix de Rome which enabled him to visit Italy for a study trip. Around 1939 he stayed temporarily in Paris, where he met the sculptor Aristide Maillol and became acquainted with the work of Auguste Rodin. His Jewish background forced Couzijn to flee Europe in 1940. He spent the war years in New York and met many other European artists who suffered the same fate, such as Ossip Zadkine and Jacques Lipchitz. Here he also met the sculptress Pearl Perlmutter whom he married. After the war Wessel Couzijn returned to Amsterdam. There he adopted a personal, very moving expressionist style. Initially he worked figuratively, but gradually his sculptures – partly due to the impressions he gained during a visit to Auschwitz – became non-figurative expressions of emotional concepts such as hope, despair, love, liberation and oppression: monumental plastic made way for more open forms, in which space and dynamics strengthen the expression.
Until 1970, Couzijn lived and worked in Amsterdam, after that in Amstelveen. He built up a valued and impressive oeuvre and won several art prizes, including the David Röell Prize for his entire oeuvre in 1966 and the Dutch State Prize for Sculpture in 1967. His work was shown at the Venice and Middelheim Biennales and is in many private and public collections. Couzijn died in 1984 in Haarlem at the age of 71.
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| Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
| Price | > 10KG or bigger than 1.00 x 0.50 meter
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