Leo Gestel Summer riverscape with sailboats and a fisherman

About Leo Gestel

Leo Gestel is generally referred to as one of the great Dutch Modern artists, a title he bears ex aequo with Jan Sluijters. Leo Gestel was a painter, both in oil and watercolour, and he drew, predominantly landscapes, figures, still-lifes and flowers. He created his own style, heavily influenced by impressionism, luminism, fauvism and cubism. From 1915, Leo Gestel worked in the picturesque Dutch village Bergen, and was a representative of the ...