Theo Beerendonk - Erotic 60s drypoint Etching - pencil signed - small size - Sold

• Characteristic and explicit drypoint etching on handmade paper by the Amsterdam multi-disciplinary artist Theo Beerendonk (1905-1979). He made this etching in the 1960s. The etching is in absolutely good condition and is signed in pencil at the bottom right. - not framed. Etching sheet size 15.5 x 11cm.

• Biography: Theo Beerendonk

The oeuvre of Theo Beerendonk (1905-1979) reflects the stormy developments that art underwent in the twentieth century. Beerendonk quickly built up an impressive oeuvre with portraits, still lifes and nudes that stood out for their idiosyncratic use of color.
Theodorus Hendricus Johannes (Theo) Beerendonk studied from 1925 to 1931 at the National Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam, where he received a thorough classical painting training under the guidance of professors JH Jurres and Hendrik Jan Wolter. In the 1930s Beerendonk created a furore with daring nudes, in the tradition of his great predecessors George Hendrik Breitner, Isaac Israëls and Jan Sluijters. He also painted portraits, still lifes, flowers, figures and landscapes, and he also focused on etching, in which he achieved true mastery. He mastered all techniques, from drypoint and mezzotint to aquatint and varnish-mou. He was a member of various organizations: Maatschappij Rembrandt 1944, St. Luke Amsterdam 1944, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam as a member until 1956 and as 2nd chairman from 1957.
After the Second World War he began to stylize and abstract his subjects and his work became more abstract.
In 1966, Beerendonk was appointed curator at the Rembrandthuis Museum in Amsterdam, where he gave demonstrations in the art of etching and also reprinted copper plates by Rembrandt.
Beerendonk's own etchings often show Amsterdam cityscapes and the landscape around Amsterdam, as Rembrandt must have seen it.