Fons Haagmans - mixed media on paper | 'Untitled' | 1987

Beautiful minimalist work from the 80s by Fons Haagmans. High quality work, with which Haagmans can measure himself against the great abstract/minimalist artists.

Spray paint on colored paper, provided with incisions. Signed on the back of the work.


Sold at Art & Project in Amsterdam at the time. The whole is in neat condition.


Fons Haagmans is a Dutch artist, born in 1948 in Schinnen. He studied Monumental Arts at the City Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht between 1966 and 1970. Over the years, Haagmans has taught at various leading educational institutions, including the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Haagmans' work consists mainly of paintings and graphics. His canvases usually show a few figures or motifs such as numbers, letters, symbols and heraldic representations. The motifs are applied to the canvas with stencils in multiple smooth layers of colour, creating a flat, almost textureless work.


Haagmans' work is included in various museum, private and corporate collections in the Netherlands and abroad. He has also exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Bern, the Royal Academy in London, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht and at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Fons Haagman currently lives and works in Maastricht. (source FramerFramed.nl)


Fons Haagmans (1948 Schinnen) is a Dutch painter and draftsman. In his long career he has proven that painting lends itself just as well to abstract works of art as to figurative canvases. Haagmans became internationally known in the 1980s with his monochrome canvases on which rhythmic series of motifs and numbers are depicted. Later in his career he increasingly focused on depicting and reflecting on the world around him.


Education: City Academy for Visual Arts in Maastricht, Department of Monumental Arts (1966-1970). He was a teacher at the ABK of Maastricht, Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht, Rijksakademie of Amsterdam and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Antwerp. Haagmans lives and works in Maastricht. He mainly makes paintings and graphics (lithographs). His work is included in numerous museum, private and corporate collections. He exhibits his paintings and lithographs in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Royal Academy in London, among others.


Fons Haagmans has an aversion to oil paint. From the mid-eighties, he paints monochrome canvases with a single motif on them, numbers and letters, using 'normal' paint. Later, he adds shapes from heraldry and tarot cards, and he expands it from a single figure to a rhythmic repetition of figures. He transfers the motifs to the canvas using stencils and multiple smooth layers of colour. This creates flat, textureless 'figure-on-background' paintings. (source Kunstbus)