Lot 254: f - A three-fold painted wooden firescreen by Albert Plasschaert 1936

oil on board, painted with semi-abstract motifs, the central panel depicting a figure on horseback, in stained oak frames dated Maart 1936

height 80 cm, total width 97 cm

Christie's Amsterdam, May 2006, sale AMS-2731 Leidelmeijer collection, lot 37

Painter, poet and writer Albert August Plasschaert (1866 - 1941) was an autodidact who worked for most of his career as a designer of stained glass windows, while developing a mystical religious philosophy which he expressed in visionary, often inaccesible, paintings, writings and lectures. Plasschaert published numerous review of the work of fellow-artists, most notably that of kindered spirits such as Van Konijnenburg (see following lot) and in 1912 was the first to present the work of the Italian futurists and Kandinsky in The Netherlands