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name: van Rees
vorname: Otto
wikidata-repräsentation: Q2372742
gnd-repräsentation: 136071902
biografische angaben: * Freiburg im Breisgau, 20 April 1884; † Utrecht, 19 May 1957). Dutch painter. He had drawing lessons with his father Professor Jacob van Rees (1854–1928) and with Herman Heyenbroek (1871–1948). In 1904 he worked with Jan Toorop in Domburg, painting in a divisionist style. In the same year he moved to Paris with his wife Adya van Rees-Dutilh (1876–1959), a painter. They settled at the Bateau-Lavoir and met Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen. There van Rees’s work moved from pointillism to the brightly coloured planar style of van Dongen and c. 1911 to Cubism, a development paralleled in van Rees-Dutilh’s work, for example van Rees’s Bather (1911; Utrecht, Cent. Mus.) and the latter’s portrait of Ludwig Rubiner (1913; The Hague, Gemeentemus.). During World War I they lived in Switzerland in Ascona and Zurich where they were active in Dada. They showed semi-abstract collages in a joint exhibition with Hans Arp in 1915. Van Rees’s work was shown in the Cabaret Voltaire group exhibition in 1916. After a period of post-war realism both were again associated with Arp in the resurgent abstraction of Cercle et Carré, although another phase of realism characterized the war years.