Vinkevener, 1946

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When Anton succeeded in returning from Berlin to the Netherlands in 1944, he had to go into hiding. There was a small space under the floor where he could crawl away in case of a raid, but he also had to be careful that neighbors and others did not see him. Sometimes he goes to visit a friend in Vinkeveen. In his rowing boat he can lie unseen among the reeds, and so he can still experience some fresh air and light. The atmosphere of the dark water and the reeds, with the light shining through, will always stay with him as a safe world, far from the world of people, who make each other’s lives impossible. Anton Heyboer made many paintings of the reeds near Vinkeveen, all in the same size, but in different colors, the dark water, the reeds, and the dome of heaven shining through the reeds.

Anton Heyboer was born in Sabang in 1942 and died in Den Ilp in 2005. He trained as an engineer. In 1961, he settled on a farm in den Ilp, where he he created drawings, paintings and etchings. Heyboer’s work can be found in many public museum and private collections. It was primarily his work from the 1950s and 1960s that caused a furore. These massive sheets of graphics on which Heyboer had etched his ‘system’ depicted a mystical combination of Buddhist and Christian influences, male and female figures among primitive motifs and arranged according to the golden ratio, which is the idea that the human eye subconsciously recognises the ideal size ratio. At the time, this work gave him a renown comparable to the status of the CoBrA artists.

Vinkevener, 1946

€300

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