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1897–1981 Netherlands
Gerrit Benner (Leeuwarden, 31 July 1897 - Nijemirdum, 15 Nov. 1981) was a Dutch painter, famous for his landscape paintings. His expressive style moved between figurative and abstract, during his life.
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Yes ssjjure, it is Fffriesland, seen from an airplane.
When you paint outdoors, you work from your feet up to above your head. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
And I painted on and on, coarsely - not skillful at all and rather clumsy.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
I am not a man of production, I am not a manufacturer. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
I paint from my head [about his move from rural Friesland to the city of Amsterdam]. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
Don't bother about the result. Throw away your thinking of art, and then become yourself: just walk quietly in yourself, in your own ground.
The further I get, the more I stand at the beginning. I'am Benner, but I do not say, I got it. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
I love Friesland, but I don't feel myself a Frisian. I am a human being, be called Gerrit Benner, who paints.. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
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