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Johan Lennarts (1932–1991-10-06) was a Dutch artist.
Johan Lennarts was born on 18 December 1932 in
Strijp
Strijp is a former town in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Brabant, now a borough of Eindhoven.
Strijp was a separate municipality until 1920, when it became part of Eindhoven. The Philips Stadion, home of association football, football t ...
, 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,Beekvliet seminary in Sint Michielsgestel to become a monk. In 1948 he attended th
Joris College
in Eindhoven and four years later he started to draw again during his final year at the HBS (Former Dutch High School), receiving already in 1959 a grant from the French government. Although he enrolled first at the Royal Academy of the Arts in den Bosch and after a short period of time he transferred to the Art Academy in Tillburg he can be considered a self-taught artist.
The artist specialised in sculpture, glass-painting and canvas’ painting, and his favourite subjects were portraits, animals and flowers. Unlike his subjects, the styles and the painting techniques have changed along the years. Lennarts started working under the influence of CoBrA, joining efforts with the artist association and later art centre ''Vrije Expressieven'' (''Free Expressive'') in the 1956. In a decade later he constituted the anarchical collectiv
''Schijt aan Schilderkunst''
(''Bollocks to Painting'', SAS). It was by the exhibition titled after the SAS that Lennarts led the world see his fascination for the green colour, even producing his own “lennartsgreen”. After the American Pop Art he created collages, panels and polyptichs while he was also engaged with social projects. In 1970 another exhibition took place
''Tot lering en vermaak''
(''To education and enjoyment'', Van Abbemuseum) in order to bring art closer to people and make it more understandable. Johan Lennarts,
Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam an
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
in Eindhoven. The artist belonged to the association BBK Amsterdam (1969–1981) an
Arti et Amicitiae
(1981–1991). Lennarts lived in Eindhoven until 1969, then in Griendtsveen (1976–1983), Amsterdam (1983–1987), and finally in France where he died in 1991. “I believe that Lennarts depicted the human condition in the form of ‘fleeting moments’ (…) Lennart’s ‘snapshots’ of the human condition constitute a special representation of one of the great themes of mankind.”Philip Peters, "An Impressionist of the Human Condition", in Johan Lennarts 1932-1999: een impressionist van het menselijk tekort, De Beyerd: Peninsula, 1999, p. 146
Johan Lennarts at Play BKR Eindhoven
Lennarts Stichting
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lennarts, Johan 1932 births 1991 deaths 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors Scenic designers People from Eindhoven 20th-century Dutch male artists
Joris College
in Eindhoven and four years later he started to draw again during his final year at the HBS (Former Dutch High School), receiving already in 1959 a grant from the French government. Although he enrolled first at the Royal Academy of the Arts in den Bosch and after a short period of time he transferred to the Art Academy in Tillburg he can be considered a self-taught artist.
The artist specialised in sculpture, glass-painting and canvas’ painting, and his favourite subjects were portraits, animals and flowers. Unlike his subjects, the styles and the painting techniques have changed along the years. Lennarts started working under the influence of CoBrA, joining efforts with the artist association and later art centre ''Vrije Expressieven'' (''Free Expressive'') in the 1956. In a decade later he constituted the anarchical collectiv''Schijt aan Schilderkunst''
(''Bollocks to Painting'', SAS). It was by the exhibition titled after the SAS that Lennarts led the world see his fascination for the green colour, even producing his own “lennartsgreen”. After the American Pop Art he created collages, panels and polyptichs while he was also engaged with social projects. In 1970 another exhibition took place
''Tot lering en vermaak''
(''To education and enjoyment'', Van Abbemuseum) in order to bring art closer to people and make it more understandable. Johan Lennarts,
Ad Snijders Ad Snijders was born in Eindhoven in 1929. He was a painter, a collagist and a social activist.
Education
Snijders started drawing at the age of twelve and had his first solo exhibition when he was twenty years old, catching the attention of the ...
and Lukas Smits
Lukas Smits (born 23 May 1935 in Ravenswaaij) is a Dutch painter.
Lukas Smits was born in Ravenswaaij (Buren) and studied both at the Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch and at the Jan van Eyck-Academy in Maastricht. In 1959 he received the R ...
organized the show and according to their conclusion that artists should be involved in planning the living environment, they decorated the exhibiting space as a private house.
The “second Lennarts” was born in the 1970s, when the artist presented cheerful landscapes executed in a calligraphic manner to the public. This period was marked by the artist’s philosophic readings of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considere ...
and Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centur ...
and the questions that he posed to himself. Empty places populate the paintings of this second phase: polder landscapes, empty park stations, empty trains, parks and house interiors. His intellectual interests were also put down into words in a vast written corpus. Lennarts wrote poems, theatre plays and novels being prized by the city of Eindhoven incentive contest for his texts in Raam (1967) and by the same city for his novel ''Koekoeksklok in Utopia'' (''A Cuckoo Clock in Utopia'', 1985). His work has been on display in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Surinam and several art works belong to the contemporary art collections of both thStedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam an
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
in Eindhoven. The artist belonged to the association BBK Amsterdam (1969–1981) an
Arti et Amicitiae
(1981–1991). Lennarts lived in Eindhoven until 1969, then in Griendtsveen (1976–1983), Amsterdam (1983–1987), and finally in France where he died in 1991. “I believe that Lennarts depicted the human condition in the form of ‘fleeting moments’ (…) Lennart’s ‘snapshots’ of the human condition constitute a special representation of one of the great themes of mankind.”Philip Peters, "An Impressionist of the Human Condition", in Johan Lennarts 1932-1999: een impressionist van het menselijk tekort, De Beyerd: Peninsula, 1999, p. 146
See also
*History of painting
The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts and artwork created by pre-historic artists, and spans all cultures. It represents a continuous, though periodically disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. Across cultures, continents, and ...
*Western painting
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production, after ...
References
External links
Johan Lennarts at Play BKR Eindhoven
Lennarts Stichting
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