Jaap Nanninga
Winschoten 1904 –
The Hague 1962
After he had initially worked as a commercial artist Nanninga became an artist only at an older age. In the
late 30s of last century, he settled in The Hague. Nanninga was
one of the painters who after
World War II made the move from figurative to abstract. After his
meeting in 1946 with Geer van Velden
in France and
very much influenced by Cubism and abstract movements that were emerging at that time in Paris,
Nanninga began to
paint abstract in 1949.
Nanninga built his compositions out forms
that he intuitively put on the canvas in a typical soft,
almost poetic, manner
that is characteristic for his work.