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Albert Carel Willink (; 7 March 1900 – 19 October 1983) was a Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism".
Willink, Albert Carel (1900-1983)
in 'Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland'. (in Dutch)
Willink died, at the age of 83, in Amsterdam on 19 October 1983. A small park in Amsterdam, near the
Life and career
Albert Carel Willink was born on 7 March 1900 inAmsterdam
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in the Netherlands
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.Carel WillinkNetherlands Institute for Art History
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. Retrieved on 26 March 2015. He was the eldest son of the mechanic Jan Willink and Wilhelmina Altes. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his son to paint.
After briefly studying medicine, in 1918-19 Willink studied architecture
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at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft
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. Afterwards he left for Germany, where he failed to get into the academy in Düsseldorf
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. He later studied for a short time at the Staatliche Hochschule in Berlin
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, followed by the International art academy from Hans Baluschek
Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer.
Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid fra ...
, where he explored several types of avant garde and abstract art, and met the Berlin based artist Herbert Behrens-Hangeler with whom he became close friends.
Willink's earliest paintings were in an expressionist
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
manner, although he also painted abstract works at the time that he exhibited with the November group in 1923. At the end of 1923 he moved back to Amsterdam. By 1924 he had adopted a figurative style influenced by Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
's neoclassical paintings of the early 1920s, and especially by Léger. Later in the decade, Willink developed a magic realist style related to the metaphysical painting
Metaphysical painting ( it, pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contras ...
s of Giorgio de Chirico
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artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the '' scuola metafisica'' art movement, which profoundly influ ...
.
From 1924 until his death Willink lived in Amsterdam. His realistically rendered paintings frequently depict slightly disquieting scenes taking place in front of imposing buildings. He also painted many portraits.
Willink married four times. His first marriage in 1927 with Mies van der Meulen (1900-1988) dissolved after a year, but his second in 1930 with Wilma Jeuken (1905-1960) lasted until her death of a brain tumor. In 1962 he started a relationship with the 38-year younger Mathilde de Doelder, whom he married in 1969. Their eccentric relationship made them a mainstay in the Dutch gossip columns of the time. In 1975 Willink started an affair with the 44-year younger sculptor . In 1977 he divorced De Doelder, who either committed suicide or was murdered 4 months later. The same year he married Quiël. C. BlotkampWillink, Albert Carel (1900-1983)
in 'Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland'. (in Dutch)
Willink died, at the age of 83, in Amsterdam on 19 October 1983. A small park in Amsterdam, near the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
, is named in his honour.
Public collections
*Museum de Fundatie
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, Zwolle
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* Van Abbemuseum
The Van Abbemuseum () is a museum of modern and contemporary art in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel River. Established in 1936, the museum is named after its founder, Henri van Abbe, who loved modern art and wanted ...
, Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Museum MORE,
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File:Mathilde Willink (1975).jpg , Third wife Mathilde (1975)
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Ten Dreams Galleries
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Gorssel
Gorssel is a village in the municipality of Lochem, province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It is located about 9 km (5.6 mi) southeast of the city centre of Deventer, Overijssel. In 2015, it had a population of 4,043.
The microbiologist and botanist ...
* Ruurlo Castle, Ruurlo
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The town has a station on the Zutphen to Winterswijk railway line, and is served by trains every half-hour in both directions. In th ...
* Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...
, Rotterdam
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* Kunstmuseum Den Haag
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...
* Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
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* Museum Arnhem
Museum Arnhem (formerly known as Gemeentemuseum Arnhem and then Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem) is a museum of modern art, contemporary art, applied art and design in Arnhem, Netherlands
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* Centraal Museum Utrecht
Gallery
Rijksmuseum
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See also
* '' Late Visitors to Pompeii'' * '' To the Future'' * '' The Zeppelin''References
External links
*Ten Dreams Galleries
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