Jan Hoving - Groningen - limited edition (50) ETSING from "Hyphens" + poem Albert Schaalma

• Artist(s): Jan Hoving (1938-) and Albert Schaalma (1943- )
• Title: "painter with donkey"
• Year: 1990
• Technique: Etching
• Circulation: 28/50
• Dimensions (sheet): 31 x 41 cm (WxH)
• Signature: Hand signed
• Condition: very good condition

Jan Hoving grew up in an artistic environment where there was a lot of attention for drawing and painting, Hoving is the son of painter Wietse Hoving (1911-1999). Hoving is a self-taught artist, until he was thirty-five he worked as a decorator and window dresser, after which he devoted himself entirely to his artistry. As a self-taught artist, Jan Hoving participated in the Groep NU.

Hoving painted mainly figurative works, somewhat reminiscent of Picasso, this figuration faded completely into the background in the seventies. In the eighties Hoving became acquainted with the work of Muhlheimer Freiheit and he also started working in a more figurative-expressive style. The strict serial style that he used in the seventies then became a thing of the past. Jan Hoving considers himself more of a draftsman than a painter, he finds the solution in the use of so-called oil sticks: oil paint in the form of pencils in which drawing is still the main focus.

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The Groninger Museum has a large number of works on paper by Jan Hoving from the period 1970-1980 in its possession.

By:Arthur Brouwers

Albert Schaalma, born on that fresh spring morning of 14 May 1943 in Usquert, started writing late: from the age of sixteen to forty-three he was mainly active in the cultural field as a clarinettist and saxophonist in jazz, even playing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Scheveningen. At the age of forty-three he felt it was time for a change and exchanged the wind instruments for the pen. With success: since 1986 his cycles of poems have appeared in magazines, in collections (the book Rondreis (De Geus, Breda, 2000) was recently published) and in anthologies. In 1992 he was awarded the biennial Masereel Prize for Poetry. Albert Schaalma lives and works in Groningen. In addition to poems he has written a novella (Fabula, 1999). In the autumn of 2000 his translation of the epic Anabase by the French poet Saint-John Perse will be published. More information about Albert Schaalma can be found in the Achterbergkroniek, part XXV. Since the beginning of October 2000 Schaalma has been one of the 1300 members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.