Anton Rooskens (1906-1976)
An autodidact Dutch painter and printmaker, who was inspired by the traditional masks of African and New Guinea tribes which led to his choice of style. His paintings are bold with heavy lines and fields of color using minimal brush- strokes. Rooskens joined Karel Appel, Corneille and Eugene Brant in starting the CoBrA art group in 1949.
In the 1950s he travelled to Africa where his worked delved further into minimalism with bold lines and the contrast between light and dark. Later his work evolved into more figurative and representational themes in Abstract which proved to be his last evolution of style and furthermore the return to his early Abstraction with the CoBrA group.
