Jentsje Popma (Zwolle, Sept. 30, 1921); Dutch painter and sculptor. ...In the 70s, he taught at the Academy Minerva in Groningen. His students included Gosse Dam, Lucas Klein and Douwe Elias. ...In 2015, he donated his studio and artwork to the Nijkleaster Foundation, a Protestant monastery in Jorwert. [Google translation of text at https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jentsje_Popma] ... a landscape painter in the true sense of the word. He installs himself and his paints somewhere in the wide world and paints what he sees. He holds that atmosphere and color are indispensable to painting a landscape well. And in his opinion the right color and atmosphere can be observed only on the spot. Thus he is committed to keeping alive the tradition of Dutch painters, who traditionally distinguished themselves by working 'in the field', rather than imagining the outside world in a studio. Despite his age, Popma doesn't know how to stop. He is driven by an insatiable desire to set down the atmosphere and colors, lines, shapes and structures of the Frisian landscape on canvas.... He is increasingly worried about the 'economizing of the landscape'. Popma views nature with sad eyes; the landscape is deteriorating. He detests how the vast Frisian landscape is increasingly viewed as space to be filled up... [Google translation of http://www.galeriedevis.com/bekijk-de-collectie/jentsje-popma/] ...studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and at the State Academy in Amsterdam. He began his career making stained-glass windows, reliefs in ceramics and cement, and bronze portraits of well-known Dutch figures. In 1987 he decided to concentrate on landscapes; his oil paintings have something of the monumentality and simplicity of his previous work in other techniques. Because his landscapes are fairly small, Popma can paint them while sitting in the front seat of his car, a great advantage in the wet Dutch climate. [https://www.artrevisited.com/en/information/artists/jentsje_popma] undefined

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