Armand Bouten - Naakten

Armand Bouten was born on May 30, 1893 in Blerick, Venlo. Together with his wife Hanny Korevaar, he spends most of his adult life traveling through Eastern and Western Europe, staying in Berlin, Paris and the South of France, among other places. In 1957 it is time for a somewhat quieter life in Amsterdam , where he dies on November 20, 1965. The major themes in his work are gypsies, fairgrounds, cafes and brothels. Many loose drawings on scrap paper and newsprint made with blue and black ink.! Bouten's work is just as good and perhaps even more confrontational, as works by, for example, the artists' collective Die Brücke by Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Hecke and other German expressionists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke and Alexej von Jawlensky of the Der Blaue Reiter movement and Paul Klee and George Grosz.