signed, titLed “leven’ and dated 1990 verso- oil on canvas 210 x 200 cm Sold
Provenance and literature
Provenance: Collection Jan de Goede, Amsterdam
About the artist
Freijmuth works primarily as a painter, but in the early 1980s he also began creating sculptures. Freijmuth was close friends with Reinier Lucassen. The two painters, both admirers of René Magritte’s work, influenced one another and sometimes created paintings with the same subject or variations on each other’s work.
His work is classified as The New Figuration, of which he was one of the founders. He has a wild, Abstract Expressionist style, featuring bright colors. Yet his work also contains elements of De Stijl (Freijmuth frequently references Piet Mondrian, as in Rendez-vous with P.M. from 1991) and Constructivism (for example, Constructivism with Beam and Branch from 1986.