Print Exhibition: Jan Wiegers' Expressionist Prints

8 October–7 December 1986

Jan Wiegers was a Dutch painter, printmaker, and founder of the artists’ association, De Ploeg (The Plough), in Groningen. For health reasons, Wiegers briefly visited Switzerland, where he met and worked with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist draftsman, painter, and printmaker. Kirchner’s influence was visible on Wiegers’ works after his return to Groningen, where an Expressionist style swept De Ploeg. Two prints by Jan Wiegers in the permanent collection of the Smart Gallery belong to this crucial stage in the development of Wiegers’ personal style and his emergence as an Expressionist printmaker during his stay in Switzerland. The two prints, The House of E. L. Kirchner and Werkman and van Zweden are accompanied by other prints in the Smart Museum’s permanent collection by Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Erich Heckel, Rembrandt van Rijn, Karel Dujardin, ad Josef Israëls. 

Curator: Richard A. Born, Curator of the Galleries, Smart Museum of Art.

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