Julie de Graag
We continue our special month with the Kröller-Müller Museum with this beautiful woodcut of a cat. Enjoy and have a calm Sunday!
Landscapes, flowers, plants, and animals are characteristic of Julie de Graag’s oeuvre. She consigns the motifs to paper with clear, sharp lines in pencil, ink, or chalk and frequently uses the drawings as designs for rigorously stylized graphic work. De Graag prefers to use end-grain wood for her woodcuts. This is harder than edge-grain and more difficult to work, but it produces much finer prints, making it possible to create very detailed depictions.
H.P. Bremmer was a great admirer of Julie de Graag’s woodcuts and introduced Helene Kröller-Müller to her work. Kröller-Müller was one of the first European women to put together a major art collection, which she donated later to the Dutch people. Today it is the Kröller-Müller Museum and sculpture garden and Hoge Veluwe National Park. Helene added more than 50 woodcuts and drawings to her collection, several of which she purchased directly from De Graag’s studio.
P.S. It is no mystery that we love cats in DailyArt! Here are the cutest cats in art and here you can get to know more about the sacred cats in ancient Egypt.