Casar Domela Nieuwenhuis also known as Casar Domela ( Dutch: César Domela Nieuwenhuis ; January 15, 1900 , Amsterdam , Netherlands - December 31, 1992 , Paris , France ) - Dutch artist, graphic artist, photographer.
| Cazar Domela Nieuwenhuis | |
|---|---|
| niderl. César Domela Nieuwenhuis | |
 Cazar Domela, 1927. | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  |
| Genre | landscape, still life, portrait, graphics, photography |
| Style | cubism, abstraction, neoplasticism |
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Biography
The son of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis , a prominent figure in the Dutch labor movement.
Self-taught artist. In 1919-1923 he lived in Ascona ( Switzerland ). Having no formal, artistic education, his early works - landscapes and still lifes , painted from nature, executed by him in a very stylized manner, reduced to geometric forms. He wrote under the influence, to a large extent, of cubism .
In 1923, after staying in Paris , he worked in Ascon and Berne , where he created his first abstract compositions. Developing a constructivist style, in 1923 he moved to Berlin , where he became close friends with the influential “November Group” and took part in the Berlin exhibition.
In 1924, he became the youngest member of the Style Society of Artists, working closely with the famous Theo van Dusburg and Pete Mondrian . Work with them predetermined the artist’s appeal to neoplastic compositions, which he exhibited that same year at the first solo exhibition in The Hague in the Andretsh Gallery. Then Domela returned to Berlin, where he created his first three-dimensional relief paintings, which, remaining neoplastic, are gradually freed from the strict geometry of Mondrian. In Paris, where he arrived in 1933, Domela performed a large series of polychrome reliefs, first constructivist and then softer, into which he introduces a variety of materials: wood , copper , steel , as well as photo montages and newspaper clippings and, especially, plastic . For several years, its reliefs were accompanied by variations in gouache , the theme of which was coloristic symbolism .
In 1934, he opened a silk-screen printing studio for prints. In 1936, Domela participated in an exhibition of cubism and abstract art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York .
Large retrospective exhibitions of Domélé's works took place in 1972 in Kunstverein in Düsseldorf and in 1987 at the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris.
Experimenting with printing work, he received an order for advertising in Germany, but after Hitler came to power, he fled from Berlin to Paris, where he remained until his death in 1992.
Selected Works
- Abstraction (1923, private collection)
- Neoplastic Composition (1930, The Hague , Municipal Museum)
- Relief (1937, New York , Solomon Guggenheim Museum )
- Relief (1946, State Museum of Modern Art (Paris) , Center Pompidou )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ César Domela
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.