Anton Rooskens

Early Days: Rooskens (b Griendtsveen, 16 March 1906 d Amsterdam -  28 Feb 1976)born in Griendsveen. He is a Dutch painter. He was a self-taught artist and in his leisure time painted copies from Old Master works, and from nature, which were partial by van Gogh’s Brabant period. In the year of 1935 he moved to Amsterdam, where he worked as an electrical engineer and instrument-making teacher.

Career:

In 1938 year Rooskens  visited Constant Permeke in Jabbeke. After the World War II he exposed Black and Native North American art, which became a source of inspiration for his work. In 1946 he painted an verse to primitive man, Sun People (priv. col., see Stokvis, p. 67). His work was also inclined by Georges Braque and Henri Matisse.
Brooken’s paintings are marked by a personal language of magic signs in black, yellow, blue, and red in which masks, shields, and images of gods tangle in a jumble of spontaneously painted areas of color and line.