This work on paper by Theo Wolvecamp has just arrived at Olla Art. The work is framed and provided with museum glass. Wolvecamp painted it at the age of 65, shortly before his death in 1992.
Hengelo
Theo Wolvecamp was born in Hengelo in 1925, moved to Amsterdam in 1947 and soon became acquainted with Corneille and Karel Appel. He was a valued member of the Experimentele Groep in Holland and of Cobra, spent a year in Paris around 1953, but was neither a cosmopolitan nor a group person, and retired after this adventure to his native region, where he continued to work on his oeuvre in relative seclusion.
Acrylic on paper, 25 × 32.5 cm
Repetitive patterns
Initially, in the post-war period, Wolvecamp, who was mainly inspired by the work of Miró, linked up with the work of the ‘Experimentelen’ and Cobra, although his work from that period carries a very personal touch. Little of the work from this period has been preserved, because he destroyed much of it. In the 1950s he broke free from Cobra and started creating his pasty, abstract expressionist canvases with repetitive patterns. In the second half of the sixties he changed style a few times, but from 1970 onwards he returned to his former style, to further develop it.
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