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July 3, 2012

The Old Bridge

        Here's a lovely woodcut by an artist I know nothing about except his name and dates: Wynand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp (1874-1950).
        I'd love to know more about the scene - what is that city we see under the arches of the bridge?  What river's waters swirl so seductively past?  Is this a real place that the artist knew and loved, or a view sketched quickly on the way past while travelling, or a fantasy place representing an archetypal bridge?

[Picture: The Old Bridge, woodcut by Wynand Otto Jan Niewenkamp, 1920.
(Image from The Annex Galleries.)

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2 comments:

  1. CallyJuly 4, 2012 at 5:42 AM

    Hi Anne, I think that's probably the Dijle river going through Mechelen, Belgium if it's the same bridge as in this similar image:
    http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.be/2010/03/wanderer.html
    There's also an article on Wikipedia about the artist:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijnand_Otto_Jan_Nieuwenkamp
    Thanks for posting it, it's a beautiful woodcut!

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  2. Anne E.G. NydamJuly 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM

    Hello, Cally,
    Thanks very much for the tip and the link. I wonder whether Nieuwenkamp saw this view from his houseboat?

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