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Self-taught painter, born in 1906 in Grindsveen in Holland. When Anton
Rooskens started o paint he was mainly inspired by the great dutch expressionist
van Gogh, but in 1945 he viewed an exhibition displaying primitive art
from Guinea and he changed style from naturalism to magical and symbolic
expressions.
In 1946 Anton Rooskens met Karel Appel and Corneille and inspired by their
free spontanious way of painting he started paint more spontanious himself.
Together with Appel and Corneille, Anton Rooskens was one of the founders
of Nederlandse Experimentele Group founded in 1948, and in november 1948
he joined the newly founded Cobra movement.
Cobra became a short but very inspirering experience where Rooskens further
developed his free, magical and still more richly colored style of painting.
For uncertain reasons (not caused by the scandal at the exhibition) Rooskens
left Cobra after the exhibition at Stedelijk, but he continued painting
canvases inspired by primitive art and later inspired by childrens drawings
as well.
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