| Author: | Berg, (Sijbren Ritsert) Siep van den [VERY FINE COPY] - Jaff?, Prof.dr. H.L.C. & A. Roland Holst. |
| Title: | Siep van den Berg. COLLECTOR'S COPY (ONLY 6) WITH 12 COLOR SCREENPRINTS INCLUDING 2 SIGNED AND ONE SIGNED COLLAGE. |
| Publisher: | La Fontaine du Peuch, Amsterdam, 1984 |
| Description: | Blue printed cloth over boards, 50,5 x 40,7 cms., (40) pp. with text printed in red and blue including 10 color screenprints and 8 tipped-in color plates in off-set by Siep van dan Berg, loosely inserted 2 signed and numbered colour screenprints + two 'appliqu?'s' (collages) on one sheet, of which one signed in pencil by Siep van den Berg & on front board an original collage (pasted-up) in colours by Siep van den Berg. |
| Note: | This from an edition of 6 (60) copies, numbered I - VI (and 1 - 54), this bearing number IV, signed and dated '84 in pencil in colophon. Each copy signed and numbered by Siep van den Berg in colophon. *
Sijbren Ritsert (Siep) van den Berg was a Dutch painter and sculptor, born in Tirns on 14 January 1913. He died in1998. The son of a smith, Van den Berg went to the technical school. He became a decorator, but he also made paintings. Between 1930 and 1933 he took evening classes drawing and painting at the Academie Minerva (State Academy of Fine Arts) in the city of Groningen. There, he studied under Jan Altink. After graduating from the art academy, he established an advertising agency, along with Oscar Gubitz. From 1939 Van den Berg rent a summer-house in Groningen, where he had set up his studio. After the Second World War, he visited Paris a number of times and took classes at the Acad?mie de la Grande Chaumi?re. He settled in Amsterdam in 1954, where he had his studio at the Brouwersgracht. Initially, Van den Berg made free paintings, but his style developed from naturalism through impressionism and cubism to constructivism. |
| Book No: | 16075 |
