Ben Essers was born in the Dutch East Indies and became a graphic artist, etcher, illustrator, watercolor painter, engraver, painter and glass designer. He studied at the Kayser Art School in Amsterdam and London at the Royal Academy of Arts. Essers later lived in Amsterdam and Bergen and was friends with the painters of the Bergen School. He also worked, however, in England, France, and Italy. His work was mostly figurative, sometimes too abstract and with decorative qualities. In some ways, it could be recognized as Art Nouveau thinking, while in other respects a rather expressionistic work. Both works entered were prints of woodcuts on paper, made in the mid-1930s: Winter Landscape with Mill probably corresponds to Wintergezicht (Winter View), Winter to Winterlandschap (Winter Landscape).
Netherlands