Anton Heyboer - Polaroid foto: Heyboer poseert voor schilderij - 1983 - Sold

Polaroid photo of Anton Heyboer. Dimensions photo: H10.5 x w9cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H8 x W7.5cm. The photo is not signed.

Upon purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, when paid in advance, is very long, ie the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work. Shipping: We ship on Tuesdays - and Thursdays.


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, then the Dutch East Indies), as 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 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, 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). There he bought a piece of land 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.
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 has appeared in the graphic arts 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 and in 1964 the Accademia Fiorentina delle arti del disegno in Florence appointed him "Academico Onorario classe incisione". However, in 1984 Heyboer broke ties with Espace and the established art world in general, to continue working in seclusion in his home in Den Ilp.
However, he didn't work on his success; of his works, which were exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1975, he destroyed almost all of them by painting them over.
On April 10, 2002 Heyboer was made a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
He died on April 9, 2005 in his sleep at the age of 81 in his farm in Den Ilp and was buried a few days later in nearby Purmerland.
After his death, approximately 4,500 etchings from his Haarlem period (1950-1958), the so-called Josef Santen collection, surfaced. The authenticity of this came into question in 2014. In 2014, the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Forensic Institute assessed some of the etchings from this collection as 'most likely false'.