Carel Willink (1900-1979)

Details

Carel Willink (1900-1979)

Rossinilaan, Hilversum

signed and dated lower right Willink '46, oil on canvas
64 x 50 cm

Literature

Walter Kramer, Willink, The Hague 1973, no. 142
H.L.C. Jaffé, Carel Willink, Amsterdam 1980, p. 106, ill. p. 107, no. 209

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Carel Willink, 21 October-16 November 1946, no. 22 (as Oorlogsruïnen)
Zeist, Slot Zeist, Magisch Realisme, 1982

Lot Essay

The present lot depicts the destroyed building of the De Rudelsheim Stichting, at the Rossinilaan in Hilversum after the allied bombing in 1944 of the nearby bunker in which General Blaskowitz took shelter.

The father of the present owner commissioned this painting especially from the artist

See colour illustration

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