Edgar Wiethase

EDGAR WIETHASE (Antwerp, 1881-1965).
"Polo players".
Watercolor on paper.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 28 x 28 cm; 51 x 51 cm (frame).
Image in which a group of polo players is represented. The field in which the game takes place has been conceived in a conceptual way not only in the forms but also through the use of color. Still the artist knows how to capture the movement of the animals and the players, and to transmit the feeling of dynamism and life of the game.
Originally from Antwerp, Edgard Wiethase was a painter of interiors, portraits, still lifes and landscapes trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp with Charles Boom (1858-1939), Charles Mertens (1865-1919) and Piet Verhaert (1852-1908) and at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp with Frans Van Leemputten (1850-1914). He exhibited frequently in Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Amsterdam and his work is currently in important collections, including the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.