Klaas Bernink

Biografie
1913 - 1996

Uber den Künstler

Klaas Bernink was a Dutch painter who was born in 1913 in the region Twente. He made an enormous amount of paintings and drawings of landscapes, industry, houses and farmhouses in Twente.

After primary school, Klaas had to wait two years before he was legally allowed to work in a factory at age fourteen. He would work there for 25 years before discovering art. He experiences work in the factory as dull, but draws and reads in his spare-time. When a new Art Academy opens in the region, Bernink immediately enrolls. Soon after in 1954 he is invited to join the 'Twentse Kunstkring' and is invited to be featured in an exposition in the Rijksmuseum Twente. He joins a small group of artists that mainly produce modern, abstract art, primarily inspired by industry. Around 1965, when the government decide to pay for his artistry and he leaves the factory, his work is primarily abstract-geometric. Later, he would work in a more Naïve style, still depicting farmhouses and landscapes, some produced in the Mediterranean.

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