Beautiful work by Sierhuis. Nicely framed and a top work from 1961. There is no glass plate, Image size 100 x 75 cm

Sierhuis grew up in the years of the depression. His father died when he was two. In his early youth he already sculpted and drew and on his ninth birthday he received a painting set. As a boy he often wandered through Amsterdam. He grew up with the cityscapes such as those of Israëls and Breitner. Although Sierhuis has traveled all over the world, he has always considered himself an Amsterdammer. He attended the trade school to become a house painter, through which he acquired a lot of knowledge of materials.

Together with Appel, Corneille and Lucebert he was at the centre of post-war developments in art. In 1945 he was admitted to the evening course at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, which he left after a conflict. In 1947 he was involved with the Experimentelen and in 1948 with the CoBrA group. However, he was too young to become a member. Later he was co-founder in 1962 of the Amsterdam artists' group Groep Scorpio with Frans de Boo, Roger Chailloux, John Grosman, Guillaume Lo A Njoe, Karl Pelgrom, Pierre van Soest, Aat Verhoog and Leo de Vries [1]. "Angry Young Men", they were