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Anton Rooskens

Anton Rooskens (1906 - 1976) was active/lived in Holland.  Anton Rooskens is known for African influenced abstract COBRA style fantasy images, paintings, drawings.

Anton Rooskens

Griendsveen, 1906 - Amsterdam, 1976

Anton Rooskens attended technical school in the southern Dutch city of Venlo from 1924 to 1934 before becoming apprenticed to an instruments builder. In 1935 he went to live in Amsterdam. A self-taught artist, he mainly painted landscapes in which the influence of Van Gogh is clearly evident.

During a visit to the 1945 exhibition ‘Kunst en Vrijheid’ (Art and Freedom) at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Rooskens was struck by the African sculptures and ancestral carvings from New Guinea. The simple, clean lines characteristic of this art can be found in Rooskens work of the early post-war period, alongside Cubist influences.

From 1946 onwards, Rooskens was regularly in touch with Appel, Corneille and Brands. In 1948 he met Constant. In that year he helped found the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep that was later to merge with CoBrA. Rooskens took part in the famous CoBrA exhibition at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3553 characters.]  Artist bio

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