Anton Heyboer - Framed etching: "Dodged" - 1954!!! - Sold

Special etching from the 1950s by Anton Heyboer. Etchings from the 1950s are not often found!!! Year: 1954. Title: "Ontwegen". Edition: Own print. Dimensions incl. frame: H71 x w51cm. Dimensions of the image: H33 x w12cm. The work is signed at the bottom by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. In photos of framed works, reflection may be visible.

Upon purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The period for collection, with advance payment, is very generous, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Anton Heyboer (Sabang, 9 February 1924 – Den Ilp, 9 April 2005) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived with four women in a commune in Den Ilp (Landsmeer). The 'fifth' wife was his art seller across the street.

Heyboer was born in Sabang, on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra, then the Dutch East Indies), as the son of a mechanical engineer. Five months after his birth, the family moved to Haarlem, in 1925 to Delft, in 1929 to Voorburg and from 1933 to 1938 the family lived in Curaçao. After that, they stayed in New York. Heyboer was trained as a mechanical engineer. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the family returned to Haarlem. In 1943, Heyboer was arrested by the Germans as part of the Arbeitseinsatz and taken to a Durchgangslager for foreign forced laborers in Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). He managed to escape and fled traumatized to the Netherlands, where he went into hiding in Vinkeveen and did agricultural work.

After the Second World War he settled in Borger and held his first exhibition in Drouwen in 1946. In the same year he left for Haarlem and met his future wife, Elsa (Puk) Wijnands. After a trip of several months with Jan Kagie in 1948 through the South of France he returned to Haarlem and married Elsa Wijnands, with whom he would have a son two years later but who decided to divorce him in 1953. In 1951 Heyboer was admitted to the psychiatric hospital Santpoort in Bloemendaal for some time as a result of the war trauma. In September 1956 Heyboer married Erna Kramer, with whom he would stay together for seven years and had one daughter. In 1961 he settled in Den Ilp (north of Amsterdam). There he bought a piece of land with a cowshed, which he expanded over time with all kinds of outbuildings. He initially lived there with three, later with five women. Heyboer drew, painted and etched. His wives took care of the sales.