Wim Bos ( 1906-1977) - Haven van Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam; a work with mixed technique. Beautiful and in very good condition the painting is framed with glass.

Willem Bos was born in 1906 in Rotterdam. He also died here in 1974, after a productive life as an artist. He lived and worked in Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp and Paris. In 1924, he returned to Rotterdam.

Wim Bos was self-taught. In Rotterdam, he was not only inspired by the loading and unloading operations in the harbour and the shipping traffic. The work of well-known Rotterdam painters such as Van Mastenbroek, Evert Moll and Marinus Drulman also stimulated him to pick the harbour’s activities as a frequent topic. He developed his own impressionist style, close to that of Marinus de Jongere. His harbour views exude that typical atmosphere of the pre-war harbour, with coal firing, screaming steam whistles, rattling anchor chains in the hawsehole, and squeaking and creaking cranes and loading beams.