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Jan Wolkers and his wife Karina wanted the writer's legacy to go to Leiden. This wish now seems to be answered.
The De Lakenhal Museum and the Leiden University Library informed the surviving parents of the writer that they wished to purchase the material. It takes them a year to get money for that.
This preserves the work of the sculptor-painter-writer. The legacy of this important writer from the postwar period can also be used for exhibitions, education and research.
These are pictures, diaries, letters on his books and the film Turkish Fruit family photos, notes, typed. texts and proofs. There are also about eighty drawings: among others self-portraits, studies on animals and plants, landscapes, models, posters and watercolors
Circle completed
Wolkers was born in 1925 in Oegstgeest. As a teenager, he walks in the nature in Leiden and the surrounding area to create drawings, watercolors and paintings. According to his widow, he was born "as an artist" at this place.
Karina Wolkers: "It goes without saying that the drawings, paintings, sculptures and manuscripts he made for 65 years will be returned to Leiden. complete the life of his artist. "Today, the artist died exactly eleven years ago.
The last major retrospective of his work took place in 2008 at the Museum De Lakenhal, under the directed by Rudi Fuchs The museum has only three weeks left of the artist
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