Aweg

About this artwork.

Arie Zuidersma (1925 - 2014) was a painter, actor and musician. Zuidersma started drawing and painting after only one year of lessons at the Minerva Academy Groningen. After that year he had seen it, and he made painting his own. In 1954 he met Marten Klompien, also a painter in Groningen, with whom he was commissioned by the municipality of Groningen to paint the places that would disappear or change in the future. Thus a friendship for life was born; they could often be seen together on the roadside, both in and out of city, behind their easels.

Zuidersma's first solo exhibition was in 1959, where he was more or less discovered by Johan Dijkstra and Hendrik de Vries, painters of art society De Ploeg. Johan Dijkstra wrote a wonderful review in the Newspaper of the North. This allowed him to co-exhibit with the members of De Ploeg, the group he later joined in the late 1960s.

He painted Aweg in 1968. Depicted some ships and warehouses in the vicinity of A-weg. During this period he started experimenting with gouache and acrylic paint. The quick drying of the paint attracted him, especially for painting outdoors. At the end of the sixties and after that he only painted with acrylic paint. The painting A-road was purchased as part of the Visual Artists Scheme (BKR): a scheme through which artists received financial support from the municipality in exchange for their works of art.

Facts & Figures.

• Artist(s)
  Arie Zuidersma

• Year of creation
  1968

• Dimensions (in cm)
  80x92

• Collection
  Town Hall Collection

• Technic
  Watercolor