Gestileerd landschap

With this work Chris ten Bruggen Kate (Utrecht, 1920 - Nunspeet, 2003) depicts the landscape near his hometown Nunspeet in a stylized and realistic manner; a low horizon under a cloudy sky colored with sunset red. The distant farm with bare trees in the yard is the sign of life on the border between these two areas of color. As he himself stated, this stylization of the landscape is an idealization. He shows the landscape as it should be according to him. Ten Bruggen Kate was apprenticed to the painter Hendrik Willem de Jong in Nunspeet after six months at the nautical college. After a period in Zwolle, he returned. Nunspeet has been a popular destination for artists since the end of the nineteenth century because of the authentic landscape and farm life. This work can be seen until September 23, 2018 in Gelderland Grensland, an exhibition at CODA Museum Apeldoorn that brings together landscape painting from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An excellent opportunity to travel through the province of Gelderland on the basis of masterpieces from four centuries of art history! www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/gg Image: Chris ten Bruggen Kate, Farm near Elburg, 1980-1990, oil on canvas, collection Noord-Veluws Museum, Nunspeet