Cor de Wolff

Etching entitled 'Landscape'. 13.5x19 cm. Work is framed. Text on original behind cardboard: "so-called war drawing - Cor de Wolff - professional draftsman". 

Cor de Wolff was born in Middelburg in 1889 and died in Amsterdam in 1963. The painter / graphic artist Cor de Wolff started his artistic career as a craftsman, mainly making batiks, woodcuts and very beautiful etchings that are asked. At a later age he started to paint. From the 1940s onwards he made some landscapes in an impressionistic way. Later he became innovative and followed his own path. He then expressed his hunger for movement and color in vital paintings full of fantasy, populated by wonderfully shaped figures, gesturing exuberantly in them and painted in colorful, smoothly applied colors. Pubs, fun, fairs and markets were his favorite subjects. In his paintings there is something cheerful and cartoon at the same time. His statement "I would prefer to go out with a puppet show to show the citizens, farmers and country people how strange and how entertaining life is" applies to him. Much of his work rests with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, but mainly with private collectors. He also exhibited a lot in the municipal museum in Amsterdam and he was a member of the “Independents Amsterdam”.