Ontwerp voor een glas in loodraam met een leeuw en paard 1896 - 1934

Jaap Weyand made this design for a stained-glass window with what looks like colored pencil on paper. The lion and horse kind of bristle with energy, but they’re also contained within these angular, geometric shapes. It's like a cage of color, isn’t it? The pastel is really interesting here. You can see the physical marks of the medium, all those little hatched lines building up the forms. Look at the lion’s mane, how the strokes radiate out, giving it this almost electric quality. And then there’s the horse, rendered in these smooth, silvery tones, like a ghost caught in the light. It reminds me a bit of Franz Marc’s animal paintings, that same kind of symbolic weight given to the creatures, but Weyand’s got this graphic, almost illustrative style that’s all his own. Ultimately, it’s a fascinating exploration of how color and form can come together to create a feeling of both power and constraint.