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Gatenplant
Artist Annemiek de Beer (1971)
Title Gatenplant
Year 1999
Material Egg tempera on linen
About the work This is not an abstract painting. The title – Gatenplant – refers to the split-leaf philodendron depicted. Yet it is not the living plant that is the focus here, but the different shades of green, the undulating shapes and the flowing strokes of paint. The texture of the painting technique, known as egg tempera, is also visible as a transparent layer with tiny pits and craters here and there – similar to human skin.
About the artist Annemiek de Beer mainly paints plants, flowers and ponds in a distinctive, decidedly non-kitsch style. By omitting details and isolating natural forms from their context, she creates space to let the colour, composition, rhythm and materiality of her work speak for itself. She studied at the Constantijn Huygens Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Kampen (now ArtEZ) and at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. In 1996, she received the Royal Grant for Painting, the predecessor of the current Royal Prize for Painting.
In the collection Acquired in 2000. De Nederlandsche Bank acquired six more paintings by De Beer between 2000 and 2009. Starting in the 1990s, De Nederlandsche Bank purchased various works by artists associated with De Ateliers, including Rob Birza, Robert Zandvliet and Marlene Dumas.
