KOCH,PYKE. Puente,Susana. — De God van Nederland. Leven en werk van Pyke Koch.

Amsterdam, Prometheus, 2026. 360 pp. B./w. text ills. & col. ills. on [16] plts. Hardcover (pict. boards).In 20th-century Dutch art, there are two protagonists: Piet Mondrian and Pyke Koch. They fought on opposing sides in the modernist struggle, and one of them was declared the winner. This book is about the life and work of the other, the defeated standard-bearer of Dutch magical realism: Piet Frans Christiaan Koch (1901-1991). His work and his story have long remained in the shadows as enigmatic, unsettling, and partly for that reason, anything but popular. Koch painted an authoritarian world full of power, inequality, and secrets: an eternal reality we prefer not to acknowledge, but which undeniably exists. The God of the Netherlands reveals an entirely new perspective on this intriguing artist and his confrontational oeuvre. For the first time, Susana Puente unfolds a compelling story of Koch's life and work, and casts an unexpected light on our own history. A book that opens our eyes to the painter whom the Netherlands preferred to keep at a distance, but who has something to say to us precisely now, in a world where individual freedom is under pressure. [Publisher].