Jan Wiegers ( Kommerzijl, 31 July 1893 –

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, 30 November 1959) was a

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painter.Wiegers was educated as a sculptor at the

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in Groningen, but he also studied painting at the

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under A. H. R. Van Maasdijk and

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under Frederik Jansen. Having left the academies he produced paintings, sculptures,

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s and furniture for churches throughout Germany and Switzerland. In 1917 he became a member of the group of artists called

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(the plough), a similar group to

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but with a tendency towards abstraction. During a stay in the Davos in 1920, he became friends with the German Expressionist

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who became a strong influence on his art. In 1934 he moved to Amsterdam and co-founded the magazine De kroniek van kunst en kultuur. In 1953 he was appointed professor of the

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. Wiegers' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale ''

Onze Kunst van Heden Onze Kunst van Heden (Contemporary Artists/Our Art of Today) was an exhibition held in the winter of 1939 through 1940 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Due to the threat of invasion in the years leading up to World War II, the Netherlands' g ...

'' (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Wiegers died 30 November 1959 in Amsterdam.

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