Zelfportret 1929
Wim Oepts
CanvasOil paintPaint
30 ⨯ 24 cm
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In 2011 is een monografie en oeuvrecatalogus verschenen naar aanleiding van een tentoonstelling in de Rotterdamse Kunsthal. Mede door deze tentoonstelling is zijn werk onder de aandacht gekomen. Noemenswaardig is dat werken zijn opgenomen in museale collecties. Onder andere de volgende musea hebben zijn werk in de collectie:
– Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
– Gemeente Museum in Den Haag
– Museum Henriette Polak in Zutphen
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Willem Anthonie Oepts was a Dutch painter, autodidact pur sang and famous by his many abstracted and sunlit landscapes he began to paint after World War II. His artistry can be divided into three periods, namely his Amsterdam period (1919-1931), a transitional period (1931-1938) and a French period (1938-1988).
Until 1935, he mostly painted dark street scenes and cityscapes of Amsterdam in a social-realist style. In 1938 he left for Paris where he had painting lessons from Emile-Othon Friesz and became acquainted with the work of Pierre Bonnard and André Derain. In the city of light he came to the conclusion that colour was the very essence of painting. After 1945 Oepts often worked with violet, bright yellow and cobalt blue, in search of a compromise between figuration and abstraction. In the early seventies his paintings reached their zenith. Oepts had been able to find the correct balance between monumentality and detail. His paintings have a distinctive character.
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