Post by pieter on Dec 27, 2021 16:37:59 GMT -7
Kees Pluijgers drew since his early childhood in the early thirties and has drawn for more than 80 years. He was a banker by profession, but his heart, soul and passion lay with scetching, drawing, painting, etching cities, towns, villages, country landscapes, in the Netherlands, Belgium 🇧🇪, France, Poland 🇵🇱, Cyprus 🇨🇾, Italy 🇮🇹, Cape Town (South Africa), New York and in his Zeeland Province in the South West of the Netherlands. I have a lot of drawings from him from his beloved Rotterdam (he stayed a Rotterdammer in his heart all his life), Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Dordrecht, Breda, Middelburg and Vlissimgen.
The old Europe of the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries will live on in my fathers drawings and paintings. Especially old Dutch and Belgian cities and towns.
Now he is gone I recognize his talent, creativity, will power and his struggle at the end. He kept drawing and painting water Colours (gouaches) until the end. He said “When I piant I am alive, when I do not piant I die.” He had a good life and I remind him drawing and painting outside and inside everywhere we were. Not always to the pleasure of my mom. But nothing could stop him from drawing and painting. He had a strong will and fondness of history and art history. From the old Golden Age Dutch masters (Rembrandt and Vermeer) to Vincent Van Gogh to the modern Art of the 20th century. He liked the German expressionists but also the work of Karel Appel.
His life was not in vain and he lives on in his scetch books, his acquarels, his gouaches, his acrylic paintings, his oil paintings, his graphical work and his drawings.
Cheers,
Pieter