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Dutch Expressionist Painter Jan Altink at the Groninger Museum

artwork: Jan Altink - "De rode koetjes", 1927. -  Was/olieverf op doek, 50,5 x 60 cm. - Bruikleen Stichting De Ploeg. - Photo Marten de Leeuw.


GRONINGEN, NL – From 19 November 2011 to 9 April 2012, the Groninger Museum displays an overview of the oeuvre of Jan Altink under the title Iconen van het Groningerland (Icons of the Groningen Countryside). This retrospective exhibition in the Ploeg Pavilion presents around seventy paintings and forty works on paper. The work from the collection of the Groninger Museum and of De Ploeg Foundation has been supplemented by loans from private collections and public institutions. The emphasis lies on Altink’s paintings and prints from the 1920s and ‘30s.