The Life and Artistic Evolution of Bram van Velde
Born in Zoeterwoude, near Leiden, Bram van Velde was the second of four children in an intensely poor family. Following the bankruptcy of his father, his family moved between Leyden, Lisse, and The Hague. As a young man, he entered service as an apprentice in a painting and interior decorating company in The Hague, where he was encouraged by the co-owners Eduard H. Kramers and Wijnand. Because he was the bread-winner for his family, he was exempted from service in the First World War. During this time, he worked as a painter and decorator and enrolled in the Mauritshuis of The Hague to copy masterworks.
In 1922, encouraged by the Kramers, van Velde traveled to Munich and then to Worpswede, Germany, where he was exposed to a colony of expressionist artists. He subsequently moved to Paris, eventually exhibiting in the Salon des Indépendants between 1928 and 1941. His life included a period in Mallorca, Spain, where he created a series of still-lives, and a brief incarceration in 1938. He was married to the German painter Lilly Klöker until her death in 1936.
Artistic Style and Recognition
Bram van Velde was a Dutch painter known for an intensely colored and geometric semi-representational painting style related to Tachisme and Lyrical Abstraction. His work resides between expressionism and surrealism, evolving into expressive abstract art in the 1960s. His paintings from the 1950s were noted for their similarity to the contemporary work of Matisse and Picasso. He was championed by writers such as Samuel Beckett and the poet André du Bouchet.
Throughout his career, van Velde experienced various stages of critical and commercial reception:
He died in Grimaud, near Arles, and is buried there.
Pitanja i odgovori
Mogu li da posetim virtuelni muzej dela umetnika Bram van Velde?
Moguća je i virtuelna poseta: stranica 3D galerija umetnika Bram van Velde predstavlja njegova dela u trodimenzionalnoj galeriji.
Gde se mogu pronaći dela umetnika Bram van Velde organizovana po boji?
Radove umetnika Bram van Velde možete istražiti prema boji na njegovoj stranici Spektar boja.
Mogu li da istražim dela umetnika Bram van Velde putem ključnih reči?
Stranica Preko ključnih reči umetnika Bram van Velde grupiše njegova dela prema ključnim rečima.
U kom istorijskom periodu je stvarao/la Bram van Velde?
Bram van Velde je radila u periodu Modern. Ovaj period smešta umetnikov rad u istorijski kontekst.
