About the artwork

Dick Elffers works feature in the MoMA and Rijksmuseum collections.

Year: 1952

Framed size: 56.5 x 102.5 cm

Detailed Condition: Good condition, with a few minor retouchings

Signature: Signed and dated ‘Dick Elffers ‘52’.

Framing: Frame in keeping with the age of the artwork

Provenance: Onno Klein, Amsterdam. The Rinsema Collection.

Delivery: Collect from the shop or contact Cal to arrange specialist art handlers

About the artist

Dick Elffers (1910 – 1990) was a Dutch artist. He studied 1929–33 in Rotterdam at the Academy of Art, before becoming an assistant to Paul Schuitema and Piet Zwart. His studio was destroyed by the devastating German air attack on Rotterdam, May 1940. He then moved to Amsterdam, where he became a member of an underground artists’ group, who used their graphic skills to forge identity papers. He also designed national memorial exhibitions in Auschwitz (1980) and Westerbork (1983). He was the designer of many books and covers, and created several Dutch stamps. He won the H.N. Werkman Award in 1949.