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Colnot - signed silkscreen on paper - A / P 32 x 44.5 cm., A.p. Coming from the Bergense School folder by Rob Scholte (Amsterdam, 1958), which consists of 13 screen prints, this is artist-proof. Scholte always depicts the street signs with the names of the painters of Bergense School. In the North Holland village of Bergen, where this painting school manifested itself, streets are named after them. This print is about the sign “Colnotweg”. Arnout Colnot (1887-1983) lived from 1913–1932 in Bergen, North Holland, a place where many artists lived and worked in the style of the Bergen School at that time. From 1943–1969 he lived in Amsterdam. At the end of his life he lived in Bergen again. Striking detail in this series of Bergen street signs by Scholte is, according to him, that only the 'real' Dutch painters were awarded this honor with the names. None of the foreigners (Le Fauconnier) or the Jewish painters killed in the concentration camp (Else Berg and Mommie Schwartz) were given a street or even a road named after them.
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