Jan Wiegers

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{{short description|Dutch expressionist painter}}

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| birth_place = Kommerzijl, Netherlands

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| death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands

| nationality = Dutch

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Jan Wiegers (Kommerzijl, 31 July 1893 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1959) was a Dutch expressionist painter.Wiegers was educated as a sculptor at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, but he also studied painting at the Academies of Rotterdam under A. H. R. Van Maasdijk and The Hague under Frederik Jansen.{{cite web |title=Jan Wiegers |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/84167 |website=RKD |access-date=23 January 2021 |language=en}}

Having left the academies he produced paintings, sculptures, wood-carvings and furniture for churches throughout Germany and Switzerland.{{fact|date=January 2021}} In 1917 he became a member of the group of artists called De Ploeg (the plough), a similar group to Die Brücke but with a tendency towards abstraction.

During a stay in the Davos in 1920, he became friends with the German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner who became a strong influence on his art. In 1934 he moved to Amsterdam and co-founded the magazine De kroniek van kunst en kultuur. In 1953 he was appointed professor of the National Academy.{{cite web |title=Jan Wiegers (1893-1959)|url=https://www.simonis-buunk.com/artist/jan-wiegers/artworks-for-sale/1881/ |website=Simonis & Buunk |access-date=23 January 2021}} Wiegers' work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden (Our Art of Today) at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.{{cite web |title= Jan Wiegers|url=https://www.artindex.nl/lexicon/default.asp?id=6&num=0853900087075010001091877007880900506661|website=Beeldend BeNeLux Elektronisch (Lexicon) |access-date=23 January 2021}}

Wiegers died 30 November 1959 in Amsterdam.{{cite web |title=Wiegers, Jan |url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/17060017 |website=Biografisch Portaal |access-date=23 January 2021}}