Biography: Anton Rooskens

Anton Rooskens (Dutch, 1906 – 1976) was one of the older members of CoBrA, the Northern European art movement from around 1950 that became very influential in Post-World War II art. This lithograph is from the portfolio “12 Original Lithographs” published by Court Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rooskens was interested in and influenced by African art and ancestral images from New Guinea, not in the least their abstracted qualities.