"A painting is good if it is not finished. Just like ideas. Finished ideas are dead.. .Everything is floating, just as in life – also life will never get ready. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)"
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Gerrit Benner
(Leeuwarden, 31 July 1897 - Nijemirdum, 15 Nov. 1981) was a Dutch painter, famous for his landscape-paintings. His expressive style moved between figurative and abstract, during his life.
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