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Hans Wiesman (1918-1988) The work of painter, draftsman and graphic artist Henri Gerard 'Hans' Wiesman (1918-1988) is seen as the best in Dutch figurative art of the 20th century. His landscapes, cityscapes and portraits are of exceptional beauty, lived through and intense. Strangely enough, he is not (yet) known to a very large audience. Born in Sloten, he lived and worked near and far: for example in the Groot Bentveld estate (between Aerdenhout and Zandvoort), in southern France, Spain and North Africa. Nature, city views and vistas were important sources of inspiration for his many paintings, drawings and etchings. Hans Wiesman developed as an intuitive, driven and possessed artist. Because of his way of working, in which both the material he worked with and the subject he captured were equally important, and his changing moods? from harmonious to depressive ? his work evokes comparisons with artists such as Permeke and van Gogh.