Works of Art: Anton Rooskens

Works of art by Anton Rooskens are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

No Title, 1967

Lithograph, limited edition of 100

15 x 12 inches

SOLD

No Title, 1967
Lithograph, 28/100
15 x 12 inches

SOLD

Works of art by Anton Rooskens are available at if ART Gallery, 1223 Lincoln Street, Columbia, SC.

Contact Wim Roefs at if-art-gallery@sc.twcbc.com or (803) 255-0068/(803) 238-2351.

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.

Essay: CoBrA

C O B R A (1948 –1951)

CoBrA was with Art Informel and Tachism among the post-World War II European art movements that were related to but developed independently from Abstract Expressionism in the United States. CoBrA was named after Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, the capital of many members’ home countries. The group organized exhibitions and published pamphlets, a journal and short monographs. As an organization, CoBrA only existed about three years, but many of its members had prominent careers afterward. The group’s core figures were Dutchmen Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant, Dane Asger Jorn and Belgians Pierre Alechinsky and the poet Christian Dotremont. Dozens of other artists belonged to the group in some fashion, including Lucebert, Reinhoud and Jacques Doucet. CoBrA art combined the energy, spontaneity and painterly qualities of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel, the subject matter and imagery of Art Brut, children’s drawings, Nordic mythology and African figuration, and Surrealism’s subconscious approach to making art. It produced an aesthetic that became a mainstay in Western European art.