Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa

Women Mending Nets in the Dunes of Katwijk, um 1901

Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa’s large-format painting “Women Mending Nets in the Dunes of Katwijk”, presumably painted in 1901 or slightly earlier, is set in the landscape of a meadow that features a chain of dunes and is located not far from the sea. Numerous women dressed in provincial clothing, with white bonnets and wooden shoes, have gathered to repair large fishing nets together. Whether standing, crouching or kneeling, each is focused on her work. The women seem completely naturally wo...

Signature: JAkkeringa, lower right

Kunsthandel, Niederlande (1901); (…); Kunsthandel, Großbritannien (2002); MKdW (2002).
[Weiterführende Literatur] Sarah de Clercq: Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa (1861–1942). Schilder van het onbezorgde leven, Schiedam 2010.

Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa (1861 - 1942)

Women Mending Nets in the Dunes of Katwijk

um 1901

Oil on canvas

62 x 82 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 AKK 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2002

Not on display