Ans Markus - Lithograph, ZT

Lithograph by Ans Markus, signed in pencil by the artist. Edition size may differ from the photos. (Halfweg, January 29, 1947) is a Dutch painter. Markus is known for her paintings of women in bandages. Markus is self-taught and her style is realistic. She held her first exhibition in 1981, and achieved great success starting in the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s, Markus moved from Udenhout to Amsterdam. In 1995, she opened her own studio and exhibition space on Prinseneiland. Markus is a striking figure with her clothing style. She is considered the society painter of the Netherlands and consequently appears frequently in the press. In 2007, the Noord-Brabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch presented a retrospective of Ans Markus. Ans Markus was Artist of the Year 2009. Artist Portraits Following on from her homages of the 1980s, between 2013 and 2015 Markus painted the youthful portraits of Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Egon Schiele, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Edward Hopper in her well-known realistic style. In doing so, she asked herself whether these artists could have foreseen in their youth what they would bring about with their art. To what extent is being an artist a destiny? With a self-portrait as a girl, Markus asks herself that same question and, in the same movement, places herself within the art-historical tradition of painters who take the human being as the starting point for their work. Other homages in the exhibition concern the couturiers Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, Hubert de Givenchy, Yohji Yamamoto, Vivien Westwood, and Oscar de la Renta. Furthermore, there are several portraits on display of well-known Dutch figures such as Arjan Ederveen, Job Cohen, and John de Mol, as well as a selection from her impressive Medea cycle from the late 1990s. Paintings from the magical realist bandages series, with which Markus managed to reach a large and loyal audience over the past decades, were also present in Museum de Fundatie.