Pieter Geraedts - religieuze voorstelling - Sold

Depiction (probably woodcut or linocut) by Pieter Geraedts. Framed behind glass, 40 cm high and 30 cm wide. Signed lower left in the plate in pencil.
Petrus Christina Wijnandus Cornelis (Pieter) Geraedts (June 5, 1911 in Velp – March 20, 1978 in Leiden) was a Dutch painter, sculptor and glazier. Geraedts, who lived in Warmond almost all of his adult life, from 1934 until his death, learned the trade from his father Wijnand. Like him, he specialized in religious scenes, mostly commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church. He also painted portraits, including one of Queen Juliana for the then independent municipality of Nootdorp and one of Queen Beatrix for the Beatrix Hospital in Gorkum. The interior of the RC Heilige Maria Magdalenakerk in Goes was completely painted by Pieter Geraedts. This church also has a number of stained glass windows made by him. At the beginning of 2009, the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht acquired a painting of the Virgin and Child by Pieter Geraedts, made between 1950 and 1960. The painting builds on the painting techniques and representations of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century South Netherlandish artworks. The Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden also has work by Geraedts in its collection. For the Antonius van Padua Church in Nijmegen (Groesbeekseweg 94) he painted (in 1950/51) 14 Stations of the Cross on hardboard (1.5 x 2 m.), always focusing explicitly on the figure of Christ (in size and light). Pieter Geraedts' sons Pieter Jr. (1940) and Thom (1950) also became painters. Pieter Geraedts was a member of the Amsterdam artists' association Sint Lucas.