For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have grad… - Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

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For me, life would be worthless if there was not modern art and if I did not had the opportunity to express myself in it anyhow, now that I have gradually found the way I can express myself.

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About Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

Hendrik Werkman (29 April 1882 - 10 April 1945) was an experimental Dutch typographer and printer, partly as commercial profession, partly as a free artist. He set up a clandestine printing-house during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands (1940–45) and was shot by the Gestapo in the last days of the German occupation.

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Alternative Names: H. N. Werkman Hendrik Werkman H.N. Werkman
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Last week we made a bike ride along cornfields with the harvest ready to be brought in. Here and there it was already brought in. Heavily loaded cars rolled back home, and it sounds so nice when the car comes after you.. ..and what a fruit tree loaded with ripening fruit. It is all full of promises and full of mild softness. As you say, it is the late-summer melancholy.. ..moreover one can weep for this dying everywhere on the fields, without any mercy.

version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): De kleine teekeningen die ik vooraf meestal maak, zal ik voor je reserveren. Artistieke waarde hebben ze niet, ik maak ze alleen om eenig houvast te hebben voor de opbouw van de druk..

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version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Hendrik Werkman, in het Nederlands): Voor mij zou het leven waardeloos zijn als er niet de moderne kunst was en als ik niet de mogelijkheid had om me daarin te uiten op welke manier dan ook, nu ik de wijze waarop ik mij kan uiten langzamerhand heb gevonden.

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