Dirkje Kuik - Litho: Muis - Sold

Lithograph by Dirkje Kuik. Tabletop dimensions: H63.5 x W44cm. Dimensions representation: H31 x W19cm. The work is at the bottom right, signed by the artist. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Dirkje Kuik (October 7, 1929 – March 18, 2008) was a Dutch writer, graphic artist, illustrator, draftsman and trans woman.

Lifecycle
Dirkje, who lives and works in Utrecht, was born as William Diederich Kuik. In 1977 Kuik started using the first name Dirkje and in 1979 Kuik underwent surgery in a hospital in London and since then lived entirely as a woman. She wrote extensively about her operation, her experiences as a gender diaspora patient, as she called it, and how she resumed her life after the operation, in particular in Household booklet with raisins.
Kuik studied for some time at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, was an art critic at Het Parool and drew for Vrij Nederland. In 1960, Kuik founded the graphic company De Luis together with Joop Moesman and Henc van Maarseveen. Participating artists with different ideas took turns during twenty years.
Portrait of William Diederich Kuik, 1963
As a graphic artist, illustrator and draftsman, she focused on cityscapes, figure representations and portraits; she was also a writer and poet. She made her debut as a poet in 1969 with the collection 45 Poems, still under the name William D. Kuik. The work is seen as an important contribution to the Dutch neo-romantic movement. For Utrechtse Notities from 1969 she received the Prose Prize from the municipality of Amsterdam. The serial The hero of the pot game from 1974, illustrated by Kuik himself, was awarded the Vijverberg Prize.
From 1958-1963 and from 1968-1972 she was a member of the Kunstliefde society, an Utrecht association of artists and art lovers, founded in 1807. Dirkje Kuik died in 2008 and was buried in a very private circle at the local Soestbergen cemetery. After her death, an exhibition was organized at Kunstliefde on Nobelstraat as a triptych, her visual work, a biographical overview of her life and visual work by contemporaries. In 2008, a museum in honor of her work was set up in her former home at Oudekamp 1 in Utrecht, which existed for about four years. Her artistic legacy is managed by the foundation "Dirkje Kuik".