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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. Charles Hubert Eyck (Meerssen, March 24, 1897 – Schimmert, August 2, 1983) was a Dutch visual artist. With Henri Jonas and Joep Nicolas he was a pioneer of the so-called Limburg School.
Charles Eyck received his training in monumental art, such as wall paintings, stained glass, grisailles on opaline glass, at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He had previously started as a pottery painter at the pottery factory Céramique in Maastricht. In 1922 he won the Prix de Rome. After short stays in Sweden, Curaçao, the South of France, Amsterdam, Clamart and Utrecht, he settled in Schimmert.
Initially his work was expressionistic in design. He was later criticized for persisting in a more or less constant religious style. Partly due to these criticisms and his increasing deafness, he lived more and more in seclusion in the house "Ravensbos" in Schimmert, which he designed himself.
After the unveiling of the liberation window in the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda (1947), Eyck was presented with the decorations of Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He returned the award almost twenty years later, because he could not agree with a marriage between Princess Beatrix and the German Claus.
Charles Eyck died at the age of 86.
The painting that is now being offered shows a scene from his extensive oeuvre, a cityscape beautifully rendered.
The painting comes from a private art collection.
The work is signed lower right.
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