Seated Woman (1969) is one of the three images of Willem de Kooning that the city is rich with. The three monumental sculptures stand together on an elevation, near the large fountain on Hofplein. Seated Woman 1984 was placed at Weena in April on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the now world-famous born and raised Rotterdammer. As the name says, is Seated Woman a highly abstracted representation of a woman. The model for the statue was created in 1970, but this version, the third to be cast of the model, was made in 1980. The statue was purchased as a tribute from Rotterdam to this artist. It was placed on the initiative of the then director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Mr. Wim Beeren. He found the Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation, a number of sponsors and the municipality willing to allocate money to purchase this work of art. It is said to have cost about one million guilders, a relatively small amount for a work of this size and by an artist who was already world famous in his lifetime. Willem de Kooning, born in Rotterdam, was one of the representatives of American 'abstract expressionism' and has been painting abstract paintings since the XNUMXs, in which monumental and expressively painted women appear. Besides the landscape, the woman is his central theme. De Kooning did not idealize his women, but the expressive power of expression is paramount. Are Seated Woman even has an extra pair of limbs to increase this expression. De Kooning only started making sculpture at a later age. He regarded his sculptures, which he first modeled, as painting in three dimensions. He saw the clay as thick paint. His capriciously shaped figures seem to arise in an energetic burst. For more information: Sculpture International Rotterdam
Originally from Rotterdam artist Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 - Springs, New York, 1997) became one of the most famous representatives of the then new Abstract Expressionism in America in the 1950s. In those years he initially made large abstract paintings with expressive paint gestures. At the end of the sixties he started making sculptures. He made approximately 25 of these large bronze female figures, three of which are in Rotterdam. After his death, the Rotterdam art academy was renamed Willem de Kooning Academy in 1998.
Seated Woman (1969) is one of the three images of Willem de Kooning that the city is rich with. The three monumental sculptures stand together on an elevation, near the large fountain on Hofplein. Seated Woman 1984 was placed at Weena in April on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the now world-famous born and raised Rotterdammer. As the name says, is Seated Woman a highly abstracted representation of a woman. The model for the statue was created in 1970, but this version, the third to be cast of the model, was made in 1980. The statue was purchased as a tribute from Rotterdam to this artist. It was placed on the initiative of the then director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Mr. Wim Beeren. He found the Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation, a number of sponsors and the municipality willing to allocate money to purchase this work of art. It is said to have cost about one million guilders, a relatively small amount for a work of this size and by an artist who was already world famous in his lifetime. Willem de Kooning, born in Rotterdam, was one of the representatives of American 'abstract expressionism' and has been painting abstract paintings since the XNUMXs, in which monumental and expressively painted women appear. Besides the landscape, the woman is his central theme. De Kooning did not idealize his women, but the expressive power of expression is paramount. Are Seated Woman even has an extra pair of limbs to increase this expression. De Kooning only started making sculpture at a later age. He regarded his sculptures, which he first modeled, as painting in three dimensions. He saw the clay as thick paint. His capriciously shaped figures seem to arise in an energetic burst. For more information: Sculpture International Rotterdam
Originally from Rotterdam artist Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, 1904 - Springs, New York, 1997) became one of the most famous representatives of the then new Abstract Expressionism in America in the 1950s. In those years he initially made large abstract paintings with expressive paint gestures. At the end of the sixties he started making sculptures. He made approximately 25 of these large bronze female figures, three of which are in Rotterdam. After his death, the Rotterdam art academy was renamed Willem de Kooning Academy in 1998.
