Kerk met een toren in een dorp 1890 - 1946

This is a drawing of a church with a tower in a village by Cornelis Vreedenburgh. Imagine him outside on a windy day, squinting, with a sketchbook on his lap. The pencil dances across the paper. The marks are tentative, searching. It is the start of something. You can feel the materiality of the pencil: the soft gray of the graphite, the texture of the paper. The lines build up to form the shapes of the church, tower, and village. You can almost feel the artist tilting the pencil to create the hatching on the walls. Vreedenburgh is in conversation with many other landscape artists of the time. He’s trying to capture something real, but also something felt. The artist embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations and meaning. It opens a space of imagination around the village scene.