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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' woman was his art seller across the street.

Heyboer was born in Sabang , on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra ), the son of a mechanical engineer . Five months after his birth , the family moved to Haarlem , to Delft in 1925 , to Voorburg in 1929 and from 1933 to 1938 the family lived in Curaçao . This was followed by a stay in New York . Heyboer was trained as a mechanical engineer. Even before the outbreak of the Second World War , the family returned to Haarlem. 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 fled traumatized to the Netherlands, where he went into hiding in Vinkeveen and performed agricultural work.

After the Second World War he settled in Borger and held his first exhibition in Drouwen in 1946. In the same year he moved to Haarlem and met his future wife, Elsa (Puk) Wijnands. After a journey 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 Santpoort psychiatric hospital in Bloemendaal for some time as a result of the war trauma . In September 1956 Heyboer married Erna Kramer, with whom he would stay together for seven years and have one daughter. In 1961 he settled in Den Ilp (north of Amsterdam). He bought a piece of land there with a cowshed, which he expanded over time with all kinds of outbuildings. He initially lived there with three, later with five women. Heyboer drew, painted and etched. His wives took care of the sales.