Constant Nieuwenhuys worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Constant Nieuwenhuys as Dutch painter (1920-2005).
Constant Nieuwenhuys was born at Amsterdam in 1920. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He trained at Ignatius Gymnasium and Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as painter, sculptor and resistance fighter.
An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
Recognition followed: Sikkens Prize (1960).
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Constant Nieuwenhuys died in 2005, aged 85. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Sikkens Prize — 1960
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