Anton Heyboer - Acrylic on canvas, Title The Vinkevener.

Anton Heyboer (1924-2005) Acrylic on canvas Signed bottom center. Anton Heyboer (Sabang, February 9, 1924 – Den Ilp, April 9, 2005) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived with four women in a commune in Den Ilp (Landsmeer). The "fifth" woman was his art saleswoman across the street. Heyboer was born in Sabang, on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra), the son of a mechanical engineer. Five months later, the family moved to Haarlem, in 1925 to Delft, in 1929 to Voorburg, and from 1933 to 1938 the family lived on Curaçao. This was followed by a stay in New York. Heyboer was trained as a mechanical engineer. The family returned to Haarlem before the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1943, Heyboer was arrested by the Germans as part of the Arbeitseinsatz and transferred to a transit camp for foreign forced labourers in Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). He managed to escape and, traumatized, fled to the Netherlands, where he performed agricultural work in Vinkeveen. After the Second World War, he settled in Borger and held his first exhibition in Drouwen in 1946. In that same year, he moved to Haarlem and met his future wife, Elsa (Puk) Wijnands. After a trip of several months with Jan Kagie through Southern France in 1948, he returned to Haarlem and married Elsa Wijnands, with whom he would have a son two years later[1], but who decided to divorce him as early as 1953. In 1951, Heyboer was admitted to the Santpoort psychiatric hospital in Bloemendaal for a short time due to war trauma. In September 1956, Heyboer married Erna Kramer, with whom he would stay for seven years and have one daughter. In 1961, he settled on a farm in Den Ilp. He initially lived there with three, and later with five women. Heyboer drew, painted, and etched. His wives took care of the sales.