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Klaas bernink (1913-1996)

This auction we again have various works by Klaas Bernink that always remain popular with our customers.

He made approximately a thousand paintings and drawings of mainly Twente landscapes, industry, town houses and farms. He did this in the second half of his life, after having worked as a textile worker for 25 years. Many private individuals bought his work.

After primary school, Klaas, who was the eldest of six children, worked as an errand boy for two years before entering the factory at the legally permitted age of 14. More than twenty-five years later, he is an experienced stronger (the man between the spinning mill and the weaving mill, who has to strengthen the threads in a glue bath) at Ramie Union.
He experiences factory work and the social environment as mind-numbing, but the library, harmony and his drawing supplies keep him going. When he hears that the brand new academy for visual arts AKI also offers a course for part-time study, he jumps in.

In 1954 he received the honorable invitation to become a member of the Twente art circle and to participate in an exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Factory sites are an important source of inspiration for him. He stylizes and abstracts and at a certain point arrives at an abstract-geometric formal language, a style that will later serve him well when making wall paintings in various schools in Enschede.

Another theme presents itself. When he cycles to the factory in the early morning hours, he sees the lonely sheds in the meadows, the inconspicuous buildings on the edge of the city. He paints them in modest sizes with polymer or acrylic paint. Tightly painted surfaces separated by a black contour in unusual color schemes.
Bernink opens the eyes of those around him to what will later be called urban conservation and municipal monument policy.

In the last years of his life he returns to the subjects of the early years. He paints the industry again. Now, however, without the frustrations that the theme used to arouse in him, but with the look and wisdom of the seventy-five year old that he is now. Industry, like farms, water mills, towns, houses and landscape, is a stage in the grand story of European civilization.

Source: Who's Who in Overijssel

APRILAUction 2024:

thursday 18 APRIL:

Category Lots Start
Zilver & Verzilverd 1-313 10:00 Uur
Sieraden 500-936 13:30 Uur
Schilderijen 1000-1445 18:00 Uur

friday 19 APRIL:

Category Lots Start
Diversen 2000-2398 10:00 Uur
Militaria 2700-2729 14:00 Uur
Poppen & Speelgoed 3000-3016 14:15 Uur
Klokken 3500-3661 14:25 Uur
Meubels 4000-4279 16:00 Uur
Tapijten 4500-4516 18:45 Uur
Brons & Beeldhouwkunst 5000-5115 19:30 Uur
Glas & Kristal 5500-5533 20:30 Uur
Porselein & Aardewerk 6000-6245 21:00 Uur

saturday 20 APRIL

Category Lots Start
Aziatica 7000-7720 09:00 Uur

viewing days:

13 APRIL: 10:00 - 17:00

14 APRIL: 11:00 - 17:00

15 APRIL: 10:00 - 18:00

 

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