Bekking, Dan Willem - 1906 Haarlem - 1973 Amsterdam, "Nideggen bei Blens", oil on canvas, bright, strong and contrasting colors, impasto, spatula-like application of paint, view of Nideggen Castle in the Rureifel with a view of the red sandstone cliffs, signed lower right and inscribed and titled on the reverse, approx. 71x100cm, frame bumped, approx. 73x103cm. Impressionist artist, after studying in The Hague he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences in Rotterdam, he settled in Paris, where he belonged to a group of younger Expressionists, active in Rotterdam, Paris and Spain.

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