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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. Ad Snijders (1929 – 2010) was an Eindhoven artist, draftsman, collagist and sculptor. At the age of twelve he started drawing and actually is
he never stopped doing that. His style can best be described as expressionist, figurative art.
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130x130cm
oil on board
1990
As an artist, Ad Snijders is self-taught. This was mainly because he had to go to work immediately after primary school. He started as an apprentice typesetter at a printing company, but always continued to draw in his spare time. This ensured that he joined Kunstkring de Kempen in 1947 at the age of eighteen, as one of its youngest members. At a later age he still had the opportunity to study. Thanks to the French government, he receives a scholarship to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére in Paris in 1961 and 1962.
Both Snijder's theme and his way of working connected with events in the time periods in which he worked. His work was always up to date. During his career, Snijders knew several ways of working. He started out as a draftsman, but made his first oil painting in 1955. Painting was immediately self-evident to him. Between 1958 and 1963, Snijders regularly made images of papier-mâché and wood, as well as fragile constructions of metal. In 1964 he made his last painting for the time being and started working on collage techniques. Around 1970, painted and drawn reality, the figuration, returned to his work.
The work of Ad Snijders has been exhibited in leading galleries and museums in the Netherlands and abroad since 1957. His work has been shown in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and several times in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 1959 he exhibited, among others, in Galerie Taurus in Nijmegen, together with artists Armando and Kees van Bohemen. A year later, his work was selected for Premio Marzotto in Italian Valdagno. Here he exhibited together with Corneille and Lucebert, among others.
The work comes directly from the heirs of Ad Snijders and the authenticity is therefore guaranteed. 67540529