Anton Heyboer - Oervogel (Kip) - Sold

Beautifully framed chicken by Anton Heyboer. Frame is a silver-colored baking frame with a red background.
After that, the Heyboer family seems to be making a relocation marathon along cities in the Netherlands and in between also to New York and Curacao. Son Anton receives a technical training as a mechanical engineer. He also learns welding and bench work. He becomes a driller. In 1942 the Heyboeren settle in Haarlem, where Anton is arrested a year later by the Germans and put to work in Berlin. After seven months, he comes back deadly ill. His experiences in the labor camp have been of great significance for the development of his artistry. He wrote about it himself: 'The concentration camp was no worse than the parental home and society is no worse for me than both, too uncreative. He teaches himself to etch and makes shameless kitsch to earn a living.
After the war he left his parental home and moved to Drenthe, lived for a few months in the south of France and in 1951 was locked up in the psychiatric hospital in Santpoort. He stays there for a few months. His turbulent lifestyle is reflected in a number of marriages. In 1961 he found the peace he was looking for in Den Ilp. And from that moment on, the fame of Heyboer and his brides only gets bigger. The 'Heyboerderij' will become an attraction and there will be a shop opposite where the artist's work will be offered for sale. It is the start of a series of extensions to the site. That goes well for a long time, but there are crooked faces from residents who have to tear down their illegal constructions of the municipality. Heyboer became a political item in the early 1990s. The IC party turns out to be a louse in the skin of the Heyboer family, because the changing politicians keep getting the idea that Heyboer is allowed more than the 'ordinary' inhabitants of the village. A bit rightly so, as appears from a statement by mayor Kerkhoven in 1987: 'Distinction must be possible'. The house slowly disappears behind wooden fences. Over the years, the graphic artist's number of brides rises to five: Petra, Lotti, Joke, Marike and Maria, in random wedding order.
The production of art is increasing.
Heyboer's name is also established abroad. His work has been acquired by museums in America, Peru, Germany, Switzerland and England. In Chicago, a museum has a room named after him.
Anton Heijboer passed away on April 9, 2005 at the age of 81.