Anton Heyboer - Moeder en kind - Sold

HEYBOER Anton (Sabang 1924 - Den Lip 2005) Mother and child Watercolor on paper Signed at the bottom Paper dimensions: 67 x 60 cm Frame dimensions: 71 x 65 cm
Anton Heyboer (Sabang, February 9, 1924 – Den Ilp, April 9, 2005) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived with four women in a commune in Den Ilp (Landsmeer). The 'fifth' wife was his art saleswoman across the street. Contents 1 Life course 2 Recognition 3 Biography 4 External links Lifecycle Heyboer was born in Sabang, on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra, then Dutch East Indies), the son of a mechanical engineer. Five months after his birth, the family moved to Haarlem, in 1925 to Delft, in 1929 to Voorburg and from 1933 to 1938 the family lived on Curaçao. This was followed by a stay in New York. Heyboer was trained as a mechanical engineer. The family returned to Haarlem before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1943 Heyboer was arrested by the Germans as part of the Arbeitseinsatz and transferred to a Durchgangslager for foreign forced laborers in Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). He managed to escape and, traumatized, he fled to the Netherlands, where he went into hiding in Vinkeveen and performed agricultural labour. After the Second World War he settled in Borger and held his first exhibition in Drouwen in 1946. In the same year he left for Haarlem and met his future wife, Elsa (Puk) Wijnands. After a trip of several months with Jan Kagie through the South of France in 1948, he returned to Haarlem and married Elsa Wijnands, with whom he would have a son two years later[1], but who already decided to divorce him in 1953. In 1951 Heyboer was admitted to the psychiatric hospital Santpoort in Bloemendaal for some time as a result of the war trauma. In September 1956, Heyboer married Erna Kramer, with whom he would stay for seven years and have one daughter. In 1961 he settled in Den Ilp (north of Amsterdam). There he bought a piece of land with a cowshed, which he expanded over time with all kinds of outbuildings. He lived there initially with three, later with five women. Heyboer drew, painted and etched. His wives handled the sales. Recognition In the 1960s, Heyboer's work began to receive international attention. He was a loyal customer of Galerie Espace in Haarlem and participated in several exhibitions. His work was displayed in the graphic art department of the exhibitions documenta 2 in 1959, documenta 3 in 1964 and documenta 4 in 1969, all in Kassel, Germany. In 1964 he received the Japanese Ohara Museum Prize for his work Carnic Man[2] and in 1964 the Accademia Fiorentina delle arti del disegno in Florence named him "Academico Onorario classe incisione". In 1984, however, Heyboer broke ties with Espace and the established art world in general, to continue working in isolation in his home in Den Ilp. However, he did not work on his success; of his works exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1975, he destroyed almost everything afterwards by painting them over. On April 10, 2002, Heyboer became a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He died in his sleep on April 9, 2005 at the age of 81 in his farm in Den Ilp and was buried a few days later in nearby Purmerland.