Willy Rams - Karakteristiek Naïef expressionistisch olieverf - "Boom" gesigneerd - Sold
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- Description
- Willy Rams (1922-2020)
| Type of artwork | Painting |
| Year | 1986 |
| Technique | Oil paint |
| Support | Panel |
| Framed | Framed |
| Dimensions | 50 x 40 cm (h x w) |
| Incl. frame | 55 x 45 cm (h x w) |
| Signed | Hand signed |
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- Willy was born on October 10, 1922 in Utrecht. His baptismal names were Wilhelmus Cornelis. His father's name was Johannes Rams and he was a contractor and his mother's name was Aleida Heuker or Hoek.
After school, Willy first worked in a bookshop and later in his smokers' shop in Amersfoort, but he actually wanted to become an architect. In Soest, where he lived at the time, he met painter Wim Wijnman and took drawing and painting lessons with him from 1939 to 1942, until he went into hiding.
In 1946 he enlisted in the Dominican Order to become a Dominican friar. He started in the household of the Albertinum convent in Nijmegen, after he entered it on September 23, 1946. He made his temporary profession on March 29, 1948. Exactly six years later, he made his solemn profession. At the end of 1955 he moved to Huissen and in the autumn of 1956 to the Dominican convent in Rijckholt. Three years later he left for Curaçao to work in the housekeeping department of the Pius seminary.
In the previous years he painted a little, but in Curaçao he had time and inspiration to start painting in the afternoons and 'the creative bomb burst', as he put it himself. In the hospital of the island he had his first exhibition. In 1965 the Pius seminary was closed and Willy was transferred to the convent of Santa Sabina in Rome. He did not really feel at home there, in contrast to his place of employment Curaçao.
In the autumn of 1968 he was assigned to Huissen and at the end of 1970 again to Rijckholt. In the early years Willy's personal file listed activities as a chamberlain, porter or sexton. From 1968 it was only mentioned: visual artist.
At the beginning of 1978 he was assigned to the Albertinum, where he was given his own studio space. In 1979 he was accepted as a member of the Community of Gelderland Visual Artists and became a member of the Algemeen Kristelijk Kunstenaars Verbond. He received even more recognition through a major retrospective in 1995, in which a book about his works was published by the Dominicans.
Although Willy took lessons from artists at different stages of his life, he considered himself mainly self-taught. He developed himself as a versatile visual artist. Pen drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, sculptures made of clay or many other materials, everything seemed possible with him. The nature around the monastery where he lived, the Christian faith or cityscapes regularly formed the starting point of his work. His work was often abstract or figurative. He himself said: 'I do not draw and paint after what my eyes see, but with my heart I represent the essence of things.'
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| Condition | Good | ||||||||||
| few visible irregularities. | |||||||||||
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| Pick up | The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Purmerend, The Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
| Price | Up to 5 kg.
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