Surrealism and still life artist, recognised for his visionary creativity and fine detail.
Klaas Wiedijk was a master of fine, detailed painting. In his still lifes he rendered the everyday with such precision that an old enamel jug, a lace cloth or the skin of a peach seems more real than the thing itself, calm, exact, and quietly alive. But the same hand was never content with the visible world alone. Alongside the still lifes he built a rich world of his own imagination and captured it down to the smallest detail, reed boats sailing on lily ponds, a winged camel crossing the desert, masked figures and kings adrift on arks of butterflies. This archive brings the two together, the real and the dreamed, the work of a true master in both. Take your time and look closely, because with Wiedijk there is always more hidden in the details than first meets the eye.