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Wim Motz 1900-1977 Wim Motz was born Wilhelm Johann Motz in Rotterdam on 8 May 1900. After numerous jobs and trades, he decided to devote himself entirely to art at the age of 37 in 1937. Until then, his education had only consisted of primary school. This was followed by several jobs, including in gardening, as a fairground tourist, in the mines of Belgium, as a market vendor, wallpaperer and house painter. As an artist, he took lessons from Gouda painter Jan van Straaten (1880-1967). Initially, Motz painted naturalistic scenes, in which the harbour, industry, landscape and city are recurring subjects. After joining the Aragroup in 1950, he specialised in colour lithography and his work underwent a shift towards abstraction, for which he used elements from nature. Abandoning figuration allowed Motz to throw himself entirely into line and colour, the fundamentals of art. He germinated into a true ''emotionalist''. With great passion, in a passionate manner, he depicted his subjects on canvas and paper. For his paintings, he used a masonry technique. Like his great example De Staël, he applied the paint to the canvas with a spatula. ''Painter of colour'', he was also called. Wim Motz was known for his socially critical attitude. As early as 1937, he went on hunger strike after being transferred to the House of Detention for refusing to serve. Injustice, violence and abuse of power inflamed Motz time and again and gradually inclined him more towards the ''epic of nature''. On 19 May 1977, Wim Motz died in his beloved Rotterdam. Work by his hand is included in the collections of Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum of Modern Art New York, among others. Comes from the art collection of the city of Rotterdam