The old harbor with botters, the landscapes around the fishing village where the cows graze, a street with a view of the church, some milk churns and women in traditional costume. Klaas Zwaan captured it all with his brush. Many of the places he painted are no longer there or have been radically changed. Connoisseur and author of a book about the painter Arie ter Beek: “He was a good, gentle man who lived for his paintings. He once said in an interview: I wake up with it and go to bed with it. It was his lust and his life. He did have difficulty painting people. He did have a thing for cows, he could show them very nicely in a painting. But his paintings are especially important because of the disappeared spots.”
Painter of a disappeared village: Klaas Zwaan captured the Spakenburg of the past in his works
