Kees van Willigen, is a master painter who developed in four different cultures. Dutch culture from his origines, German culture for its apprentice ship in pictorial art, Asian culture ans French culture.
He lived from 1915 to 1990 and leaves us a pictorial work more than painted, chiseled. In 600 handwritten letters from his hand to his wife he explains himself on all the major topics of life.
In his letters he reveals himself as a master thinker, philosopher ans phenomenologist.
Over the course of his life, he developed a personal intimate poetic instinctive figurative organic style ans became an important painter of the ecological spirit.
Kees van Willigen son of a large family of Dutch jewelers, will endeavor to paint the souls of objects, animals and human beings with a humanistic, humorous, but also serious eye.
He is a twentieth century man who survived forced labor on the Burma railroad during the Pacific War ans left a word that will transcend time.
Kees van Willigen is the gesture of drawing ans all the complexity of colors.
Latest exhibitions :
Vogüé, Ardèche, the First of April
After several years of organization, the associations Vivante Ardèche and Enfants et amis d’Alba have succeeded with the Château de Vogué museum (Ardèche) in the realization of the exhibition :
“Artists of Alba-la-Romaine, 1950-1955, a singular story”.
This is a retrospective of nearly 20 artists who had spontaneously formed the Alba Group and of which nearly a hundred works can be visited ; paintings, prints, etchings, lithographs, sculptures…
Including those of Kees van Willigen, modern figurative painter :
At the opening the rooms were full of visitors.
The exhibition will take place from April 1 to July 2, 2023.
Deventer, the Netherlands.
During the month of August 2023 a short retrospective exhibition of the work of Kees van Willigen will be organized in Deventer (The Netherlands) in the famous medieval place of the “Drie Haringen”. The exhibition will include around twenty masterpieces by Kees van Willigen.
The exhibition will last from August 10 to 27.
