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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. The Blue Tram is the collective name for the trams that ran between 1881 and 1961 in the Dutch provinces of North and South Holland between Scheveningen, The Hague, Leiden, Katwijk, Noordwijk, Haarlem, Zandvoort, Amsterdam, Purmerend, Edam and Volendam and from 1924 had a dark blue color.
In the 1920s, 30s and 40s, the Blue Tram was an important traffic artery in the region. The fast and high-frequency tram services made living in commuter villages such as Voorburg and Overveen attractive, in an era when the bicycle was the fastest private means of transport for most people. The Blue Tram has therefore made an important contribution to the development of commuter places in the region.
The painting is sold including a wooden floating frame and 'Certificate of Authenticity'.
Bert Hermans (1947) specializes in industrial and cultural heritage. The source of inspiration for his paintings are often buildings with special architecture.
Hermans regularly exhibits in galleries and at Dutch art fairs. He has won many awards.
His work has been exhibited in eight European countries, in the United States, China and Japan.
Main Exhibits:
- Artexpo Dallas, Dallas, United States, September 16-18, 2022.
- Spectrum Red Dot Miami, USA, 11/30/2022 through 12/4/2022.
- EuropArtFair, Amsterdam, 7/2/2021 to 7/4/2021 and 9/30/2022 to 10/2/2022.
- Tokyo International Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan, 8/10/2021 to 9/10/2021.
- Art Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 4-9-2021 to 5-9-2021.
- Los Angeles (LA) Art Show, Los Angeles, USA, 2/5/2020 through 2/9/2020.
- The Illusion of Reality, Bologna, Italy, 11/28/2019 to 12/12/2019.
- National Art Days, Nieuwegein, 09-11-2019 to 10-11-2019, Gorinchem, 6-11-2021 to 7-11-2021 and 19-11-2022 to 20-11-2022.
- Annual Dutch Art Fair, Amsterdam, 11-10-2019 to 13-10-2019.
- 'Patrimoine industriel et culturel', Clémont, Sologne, France, 13-09-2019 to 16-09-2019.
- Artexpo New York, New York, USA, 4/4/2019 to 4/7/2019 and 11/18/2021 to 11/21/21.
- Retrospective exhibition 'Industrial and cultural heritage', Evertshuis in Bodegraven, 07-02-2019 to 04-04-2019. 65275757