"..in Friesland [up to c. 1954] Benner rarely had the opportunity to see anything of modern painting. The sense of identification of man with nature is the basis of his feeling for life and art. When he speaks about his surrounding world, the painter uses words as 'a miraculous world'. He paints in a colouring of moved simplicity; his colors, especially the primary ones, have a strong purity. His simplification of nature however is not an abstraction, the forms of animals and the landscape have never been abandoned completely.. (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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