Description
Pier Feddema was born on 2 June 1912 as a farmer’s son in Anjum. At primary school in Anjum he already excelled in drawing. He went to the Kweekschool in Dokkum and obtained his certificate of competence as a teacher at the age of 19. He was immediately able to start working as a teacher at the Christian Rehobothschool in Hemrik. While boarding with baker Dijkstra in Wijnjewoude he met Tite, whom he married in 1938. After the war the Feddemas moved to Groningen where Pier became a drawing teacher at the “Kleuterkweek”. After working for a short time as a drawing teacher at the U.L.O. in Balk, the family moved to Drachten where he worked at the Ichtus College until his retirement in 1977. Shortly afterwards Pier and Tite returned to Balk where Pier died in 1983 at the age of 71.
He was part of an artist group that manifested itself under the name ‘Yn ’e Line’ as a representative of post-war Frisian expressionism. After the painters of De Ploeg and with Gerrit Benner, ‘Yn ’e Line’ also forms the face of expressionism in the visual arts of the north. In addition to being a visual artist, Feddema was also a writer.
This work, oil on paper is in very good condition, signed and dated pfeddema 1976, framed 77×63/59×43
