Ger Boosten - Ets. Titel, Ontspanning - Sold

Etching: 23x24 cm Etching including frame: 47x42 cm Good condition, framed, 1988.
Gèr Boosten has not only earned his spurs internationally in the field of graphics - etchings, posters and book illustrations. He also achieved success with painting and designing theater sets. His work bears witness to an unrelenting drama. Ger always digs deeper than the surface. He is not satisfied with telling a story but wants to convey ideas, underlying motives and emotions. To express this he makes frequent use of symbolism. The graphic artist painter Ger Boosten was born on 10-06-1947 in Valkenburg. He attended the academy of applied art in Maastricht from 1964-1965. From 1966-1971 the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. The style features symbolic-realism realistic abstract and figurative. He painted landscapes people cityscapes symbolist themes, social themes still lifes and classical cultures. Ger Boosten is a perfectionist who works for years on a canvas. In 1971 he received the prize of the city of Maastricht and in the same year the royal subsidy for free painting. The Bonnefanten museum in Maastricht has 70 works by Boosten. his work hangs in significant places, the ceiling painting of the Mosasaurus in the Natural History Museum is also his, as in the Bonbonniere in Maastricht, the Prometheus on the fire screen is his hand.