Paul Martin Koning - Etching, City or Village View

Beautiful large etching. Early figurative work by Paul Martin Koning (1943).
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About the artist:
Paul M. Koning was born in 1943 in Santpoort and has lived most of his current life in Vogelenzang, where the old Graaf Floris school was his studio, showroom and home. Nowadays he lives in seclusion and continues to work inspiringly.

Paul M. Koning paints, draws and etches with an intense passion. Form and content are connected by inspiration. Inspiration forms the core of his creative process. Layer upon layer, sketchily, the very first intentions emerge that eventually form into a strong composition with a rich or muted palette: a force field of paint, with a glow of light that veils lines. Mystical interpretations of biblical themes can often be recognized in his work. Koning's modern, figurative works are characteristic of his early years, after which his style became more abstract in the eighties. Paul Koning's work can be found in private collections at home and abroad and has a central place in the museum collection of Museo Raset, museum of modern art in Girona, Spain.

Dictation from a good friend, potter Gerlach van Beinum: "Paul Koning's work is like a process of becoming aware. Personal experiences are absorbed through a fine-meshed sieve. Usually not immediately visible to the viewer, which is an excellent characteristic. Work, philosophical in nature, that consists of multiple layers. I will say nothing about these layers. I leave them where they belong, with Paul. Looking at the form, the use of color is particularly striking. His sense of color is of a high level. By stacking colors he achieves an intensity that one would not expect. Here too, layers are visible. And then there is his signature. Poetic in character and recognizable in all his work over the years. So very Paul."
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