Herman Kruyder

"images of the most important paintings of Herman Kruyder"

"I was done justice and I appreciated it."

"It is my intention, never to start with modeling directly . In my view this is the task of the sculptor. I am modeling 'the surfaces'. Not only concerning the volumes, but also concerning the flat hue…"

"Only now I see what I am capable of and I don't understand that I have been able to make this canvas in my small front room ."

"Now I am not a supporter of a contract. But in these circumstances that I have now ended up in - temporarily I hope - it would be very welcome. Then at least I can work quietly in this misery just at …"

"At the moment we are back in L. in Houthem St. Gerlach, already a fortnight. I collected already a lot here. We left when it was not yet spring - just to see everything coming out against those beauti…"

".. will now work on the painting 'The bitch in Heat', I have studies of the subject for a long time already. Actually it can better be called 'The fight therefore', because in the composition in the b…"

".. coloration, monumentallity and bewildering deformations of human physical and psychic properties.."