Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882, Leens, Province of Groningen – 1945, Allardsoog, Opsterland) was a Dutch painter, engraver, woodcutter, illustrator, photographer, printer, publisher, journalist. He was a self-taught painter. He belonged to the art movement De Ploeg (The Plough) of Groningen, for which he also was active as a printer in the period 1922-1931. He lived and worked almost his entire life in Groningen. He made study tours to Cologne (Germany) and Paris in 1929. His subjects are abstractions, figures, animals, landscapes, seascapes and portraits. Werkman was executed by the Germans in the woods of Bakkeveen on April 10, 1945. Many of his outstanding works are in important museums: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.