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Wim (Wiljtze) Gerrit Carel Schuhmacher BIOGRAPHY
1894 Amsterdam, Holland - 1986 Amsterdam, Holland. Known for: Magic realist, "grey haze" painting, portrait, still life, cityscape, nudes, landscape.
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the... Read full biography
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the Bergen School of Painting, named for a village in the province of Noord-Holland. Bergen School... Read full biography
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the Bergen School of Painting, named for a village in the province of Noord-Holland. Bergen School artists used an Expressionist style influenced by Cubism. His painting subjects included animals, human figures including nudes, interiors, landscapes, still life, portraits, cityscapes and insects. In... Read full biography
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the Bergen School of Painting, named for a village in the province of Noord-Holland. Bergen School artists used an Expressionist style influenced by Cubism. His painting subjects included animals, human figures including nudes, interiors, landscapes, still life, portraits, cityscapes and insects. In addition to painting, Schumacher's methods were graphics, ink drawing and furniture design. His nickname is "The Master of Grey" because of the grey haze that seems to cover his later work. Towards the end of his life, he became considerably less... Read full biography
Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the Bergen School of Painting, named for a village in the province of Noord-Holland. Bergen School artists used an Expressionist style influenced by Cubism. His painting subjects included animals, human figures including nudes, interiors, landscapes, still life, portraits, cityscapes and insects. In addition to painting, Schumacher's methods were graphics, ink drawing and furniture design. His nickname is "The Master of Grey" because of the grey haze that seems to cover his later work. Towards the end of his life, he became considerably less productive due to increasingly worse eyesight. Places where he was active outside of Holland were France,... Read full biography
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Wijtze Gerrit Carel (Wim) Schuhmacher or Schumacher (28 Feb 1894, Amsterdam - 5 June 1986, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and designer. He is mostly associated with Magic realism and was also of the Bergen School of Painting, named for a village in the province of Noord-Holland.
Bergen School artists used an Expressionist style influenced by Cubism.
His painting subjects included animals, human figures including nudes, interiors, landscapes, still life, portraits, cityscapes and insects.
In addition to painting, Schumacher's methods were graphics, ink drawing and furniture design.
His nickname is "The Master of Grey" because of the grey haze that seems to cover his later work.
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