Schitterende verontrusting: Leven en werk van Carel Willink
Rémon van Gemeren
Boom, 2024
€59,90
Biography of an amiable and pessimistic painter for whom the world was incoherent and absurd.
Carel Willink (1900-1983) is a figurehead of Dutch painting of the twentieth century. By the end of his life he had become the country’s best-known living painter. This was partly due to his visibility in the media, which also paid a lot of attention to his exciting personal life. But above all, Willink’s name was linked to numerous strange, alienating paintings. One vilified him because he did not paint abstractly and was not innovative. The other admired him for his excellent technique and even more for the mysterious, ominous atmospheres in his work.
In this richly illustrated biography with beautiful color reproductions, Rémon van Gemeren describes the life of Carel Willink and establishes a relationship between Willink’s personality, his work and the times in which he lived. This creates the image of an amiable, distant and pessimistic man, for whom the world was incoherent and absurd. That is why he painted things that he found beautiful: these were his only certainties in the midst of all powerlessness and transience. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789024434961
