Jan Wolkers - Winter image XII

Year 1995 Technique: Screen printing Signature: Hand signed Edition: ? / 225 Condition: In good condition Image size: 44 x 32 cm. Frame: 74 x 92 cm This silkscreen is number 12 from the cassette Winterbeelden from 1995. The series consists of silkscreens, photographs taken by Steye Raviez and poems by Jan Wolkers. The silkscreen and the photo are beautifully framed in a double passe partout. The poem is neatly behind a perspex plate on the back of the work. See photos. Unfortunately not very clear due to the reflection of the glass. This way of framing is unique. A must have for the true Jan Wolkers lover. Jan Wolkers Jan Wolkers is one of the best-known writers and artists of the post-war Netherlands. In the sixties and seventies he published many visual novels and collections of short stories about sexuality, death and religion – books that were shocking, especially for Christian tribes. Wolkers' stories were dismissed by some critics as 'a vagina on every page'. Despite the fierce reactions, Wolkers' books sold like hotcakes and the film adaptation of his best-known novel, Turkish Delight, broke all visitor records with 3.3 million tickets sold. Official literary recognition for his work only came years later. Too late, according to the author himself. Out of anger about this, Wolkers refused many literary prizes. Wolkers himself has always considered himself primarily a sculptor and painter. After the war, Jan Wolkers studied sculpture at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1949 to 1953. In 1947, he married his first wife, Maria de Roo. They had two sons and a daughter named Eva, who died in the bath at the age of two. Wolkers would later describe this accident in his novel Een roos van vlees (1963). Eva's death separates Jan and Maria, resulting in a divorce. In 1958, Wolkers remarries, with Annemarie Nauta, who is partly the model for Olga, the main character in Turks fruit (1969). This marriage also does not last long. In the mid-sixties, Wolkers starts an affair with Karina Gnirrep, a seventeen-year-old, lively girl next door. Wolkers offers her a light on the street and admires her buttocks in his studio a little later. Not long after, she moves in with him. What is Jan Wolkers like as an artist? Wolkers studied visual arts in The Hague, Amsterdam and Salzburg, where he was taught by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù. Wolkers painted many abstract works, which were influenced by nature. For example, he made works of art with poop. "Have you ever looked closely at the structure of that shit, in which you can still see bits of undigested grass? How can that be dirty?" he said about this in an interview. He also designed many political and social posters, including for the Vietnam Liberation Committee, the Communist Party, the PSP and the anti-apartheid movement. Jan Wolkers is one of the first artists in the world to make sculptures entirely from glass. The use of this delicate material makes Wolkers' work extremely vulnerable. His works of art are regularly damaged; his Auschwitz monument (1977) in Amsterdam has been the target of vandalism several times. Works of art have also been vandalised on Texel and Wolkers' birthplace Oegstgeest. On October 15, 2007, doctors discovered that Jan Wolkers was suffering from untreatable cirrhosis of the liver. A few days later, a week before he would have turned 82, he died in his sleep. His cremation ceremony was broadcast live on Dutch television, an honor not bestowed upon many writers. Wolkers' ashes were buried under the tulip tree in his garden.