The Amsterdam painter Arjen Galema was a pupil of Georg Rueter, by whose somewhat muffled impressionism he was strongly influenced. He painted landscapes, flower still lifes, well-typified portraits and figures and genre pieces. His figures usually appear as warm-tinted silhouettes without precise details. Galema traveled a lot to Spain and lived and worked in Paris between 1918 and 1925. [Google translation of text at http://www.simonis-buunk.nl/kunstwerk/galema-a/17810/] Arjen Galema was a pupil of the still life painter Georg Rueter. He was a member of the Amsterdam painters' society Arti and Amicitiae ?? and obtained the Willink van Collen award. Galema lived and worked in Paris between 1918 and 1925, where he produced this canvas. It is evening and the nightlife starts to get started. Some figures stand at a restaurant that is illuminated by neon signs. In the foreground a lady continues her way to a nightlife. The warm, bright use of color and the powerful brushwork strongly resemble those of the French expressionists, who must have influenced Galema in his Parisian times. undefined

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