Carel Visser - Woodcut on Japanese paper - 2001 - Sold

Woodcut on Japanese paper by Carel Visser. Year: 2001. Edition: 3/20. Top dimensions: H66.5 x w78.5cm. Dimensions: H56 x W47cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for it
collection, upon payment in advance, is very generous, in other words the buyer can have the work done for weeks or even
collect it months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the
above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent via Post.nl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.


Carel Nicolaas Visser (Papendrecht, May 3, 1928 – Le Fousseret, March 1, 2015) was a Dutch sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist.

From 1948 to 1949, Visser studied architecture at the Technical College in Delft and subsequently studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague until 1951. After a study trip to England and France, he settled in Amsterdam in 1952. He initially created stylized iron bird sculptures and had his first solo exhibition in 1954 at Galerie Martinet in Amsterdam. In 1957, when his sculptural style had become more abstract, a period of several trips began: a study trip to Italy (Sardinia) with a grant from the Italian government in 1957, a stay as a visiting professor at Washington University, Saint Louis (Missouri) (US) in 1962 and a study trip to Mexico with a Dutch state scholarship in 1965. Visser was a teacher at the Royal Academy in The Hague from 1958 to 1962.
Around 1960 he was concerned with the solid closed cube of iron and the "flimsy" cube of wire. Visser is inspired by nature (plants and animals), which also explains his use of natural materials such as wood, wool, sand, feathers, bones, rope and leather. In 1968 Visser was invited to the 4.documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale. In the same year, Jonne Severijn made a documentary film about his work. Visser settled in Rijswijk (Gelderland) in 1981. From 1966 to 1998 he was a teacher at the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem and Amsterdam.
Carel Visser is seen as one of the most important constructivist sculptors in the Netherlands. His later work is characterized by the assembly of a multitude of materials, such as car tires, oil barrels, car windows, leather, sheepskin, feathers, eggs and so on. He made ordered connections with these so-called large and sometimes small objets trouvés. A number of his works are also compared to a musical composition in which repetition and variation play an important role. His works from the period 1975-1985 could be called environments, in contrast to the more sculptural work such as the Dying Horse (circa 1949).
Visser died on March 1, 2015 at the age of 86 in his French hometown of Le Fousseret.