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Lot Essay
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman created his Vrouweneiland in 1942. By then the artist had unmistakable found his personal style. His artistic career took off in the 1920's, when Werkman run his own commercial printing works in Groningen, but went bankrupt which drove him to start printing his own poems and pamphlets in an unconventional way, such as in Hot Printing(lot 256).
Over the years he found figurative alternatives for the printing elements in the cases, by using stencils, the inkrol and stamps.
During the restricting period of the second world war these were the resources for the paradisiac island series printed in 1942. In the month July Werkman created his twenty-two sheets, his druksels, forming the series Vrouweneiland.
It might have been the heat of the summer month firing up his longing for a paradise. About ten years back in time Werkman even seriously considered emigration to Tahiti. He never went. Just as well in 1942 the women's island remained a dream; or inner emigration from troublesome times.
Over the years he found figurative alternatives for the printing elements in the cases, by using stencils, the inkrol and stamps.
During the restricting period of the second world war these were the resources for the paradisiac island series printed in 1942. In the month July Werkman created his twenty-two sheets, his druksels, forming the series Vrouweneiland.
It might have been the heat of the summer month firing up his longing for a paradise. About ten years back in time Werkman even seriously considered emigration to Tahiti. He never went. Just as well in 1942 the women's island remained a dream; or inner emigration from troublesome times.