Paintings


Lotti van der Gaag
Van der Gaag started sculpting in the 1940s, at the insistence of the painter Bram Bogart, with whom she then lived, and took lessons at the Royal Academy of Art and the Free Academy in The Hague. In 1950 she moved to Paris, where she came into contact with members of the Cobra movement, such as Corneille and Karel Appel, through Simon Vinkenoog. She was strongly influenced by Cobra in her work, especially when it came to her fantasy figures. In 1951 she took some lessons in the studio of Ossip Zadkine.

In 1952 her work was shown in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. After that, her work was also exhibited in various Dutch and Parisian museums and galleries.

Van der Gaag started painting from 1974. Fantasy figures continued to predominate in her work.

Corneille objected to her becoming a member of the Cobra movement, so she never participated in joint exhibitions. In 1994 she was named in a catalog of the Stedelijk Museum as a member of the Experimental Group in Holland, something that was subsequently strongly denied by, among others, Corneille.

Van der Gaag was married to Kees van Bohemen. (source wikipedia)

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