Gene Eggen - Spring

Beautiful work, probably made in Limburg.
With a list that Gene Eggen himself put around it. Work once purchased at Galerie De Witte Voet in Amsterdam
During his exhibition in 1978

Gène Eggen (born in Ulestraten in 1921 and died in Maastricht in 2000) was a versatile artist who told his story in many different techniques. For many, he is primarily a sculptor, although it should be noted that he was self-taught in this. He was trained as a painter and graphic artist, with an open eye for the monumental side of it. In the film that Maurice Nijsten released about him in 2002, Eggen says that he started as a painter and will die as a painter.
Gène Eggen began his painting education at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam in 1943 with professor Campendonk. Karel Appel, Corneille and Pieter Defesche were his classmates. After his studies he returned to Ulestraten to live and work there until his death in 2000. Although Eggen was trained as a painter/graphic artist he worked in many techniques. As a draftsman, painter, monumental artist, graphic artist and sculptor he created an extensive oeuvre. Eggen also carried out many monumental commissions, especially for churches.
Throughout all the long years, Gène Eggen continued to use a palette with characteristic colours: lots of blue and red. This applies to the large early canvases, landscapes and portraits, but also to the much more ethereally painted subjects from a younger period. In his paintings, a progression can be seen from fairly dark work from the 1950s, masterful colours in the 1960s, to a calmer tonality in the period between 1970-1990. After that, the colours intensify again, with a great deal of red. In these paintings, too, Eggen is someone who, with a similar subject, was permanently searching for a new form of expression.