Dutch art work, Paul Overhaus ‘Raadhuis’ (town hall) oil painting, 2004

Beautifull Dutch art work representing a village’s town hall. Made by Dutch artist Paul Overhaus in 2004.  Great soft tones. 30 x 30 cm.

About the artist
Paul Overhaus (Amsterdam 1935) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and at the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp. From 1968 to 1987 he was a lecturer at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His extensive oeuvre includes paintings, pastels, gouaches, drawings and woodcuts, with the main themes: portrait and landscape. Paul Overhaus thinks in large spaces that are sometimes captured in contours. Shapes and residual shapes search for balance in an exciting play and fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Abstraction and symbolism, expressed in a broad gesture, work on the substantive expression of a major natural event. He himself said: “The beauty of this country is its great horizontality, its monumentality, its tidiness and, above all, its grandeur.” And about his introduction to the sea, he said the following: “There are things that stay with you forever. That you can’t even forget. In the autumn of 1945, about six months after the war, my father took me to the beach. I had never been there before and that moment will always stay with me. After that last dune suddenly the sea in front of you. That tension, that incredible feeling of vastness. That sea that is never the same for a moment, but changes every time in a mini-second.”