Who is Wout van Heusden?

Wouter Bernard (Wout) van Heusden (25 September 1896 in Rotterdam – 9 July 1982 in Rotterdam) was a Dutch graphic artist, who with worked as etcher, lithographer, manufacturer of woodcuts, painter, draftsman, and painters.

Van Heusden attended evening art classes in graphic techniques at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam, and kept energetic and full of zip in Rotterdam-Zuid. Aside from a few brief trips to Paris and Munich, he barely left his allowance of the city. Initially he locally made a broadcast as a painter of portraits and yet lifes. His nevertheless lifes often have a surreal quality and fits into the magic realism and surrealism. Later, his graphic play in prevailed, initially lithographs, and forward-thinking only etching. Hereby he developed a unique technique in the same way as aquatint, which contrasted gone lines, in which a magical, dreamlike flavor was recalled.

In 1946 Van Heusden and Koos van Vlijmen founded the artiste group Vrije Beelden (Free Images), and in the middle of others Piet van Stuivenberg jointed their group. In 1962 Van Heusden was truth a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which was followed by new museum exhibitions. Meanwhile, Van Heusden remained studiously out of the spotlight (being called “the Hermit of Tuindorp”), and he participated in the same way as colleagues and galleries. At the halt of his dynamism he was a Tiny more accessible. His paintings, which he exhibited after 1962 were generally less highly thought of than his etchings, probably because they were significantly stand-in from what was usual.

Van Heusden was awarded the Sambre Award in 1959, the Rembrandt Award in 1966, and the Hendrik Chabot Award for his graphics in 1968. The city of Rotterdam settled him Wolfert Borsele Penning in 1975. His take effect is gift in the MoMA collection.