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Description
Jan Mulder*
(Maastricht 1895 – 1988 Eskilstuna)
Coffee drinker
oil on canvas, 90 x 60.5 cm
signed J Mulder
ESTIMATE €500 – €800
STARTING PRICE € 500
The Dutch artist Jan Mulder attended vocational and art schools in Amsterdam and Haarlem from 1910 to 1915, whilst maintaining close ties with the world of music. During the First World War, he was called up for military service from 1915 to 1918. He then worked as a theatre designer, interior designer and commercial artist, whilst continuing to develop as a painter. He had links with the Amsterdam avant-garde art scene, where he met Erich Wichmann, Laurens van Kuijck, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. In 1921, he travelled to Cuba, Mexico and the USA. A year later, he exhibited his paintings for the first time at ‘De Branding’ in Rotterdam. A year later, he exhibited his paintings for the first time at ‘De Branding’ in Rotterdam. From 1925 to 1931 he lived and worked in France, first in Paris, where he worked with Erich Wichmann at the Dutch pavilion of the “Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs”, and later in the fishing village of Étaples-sur-Mer. He was a member of “Les vrais Indépendents” and exhibited with them. Board positions After his return to Amsterdam, he became a board member of “De Independents” and chairman of the painters’ association “De Brug”. With the latter group, he exhibited annually at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1941, he refused to join the German Cultural Chamber and was forced to resign from his post. Mulder was active in the artists’ resistance movement and was consequently interned in Vught and later in Dachau. In 1946–47, he received two consecutive grants from the Dutch-Swedish Van Gogh Committee to stay in Sweden. In 1947, Mulder settled permanently in Sweden, first in Strängnäs and, from 1958 until his death, in Eskilstuna. After moving to Sweden, he initially produced mainly portraits, but later sought isolation in order to develop his art in a completely different direction. He created large-format paintings and watercolours that are entirely abstract and bear no relation to any observed reality. In the early 1980s, as his eyesight was rapidly deteriorating, he discovered charcoal as a medium. Other artists and styles: Henri Jonas, Charles Eyck, Frans Masereel, Jozef Cantré, Piet Mondrian, Leo Gestel, Bart van der Leck, Expressionism, Cubism
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