Anton Heyboer - wax/chalk drawing - signed bottom center - Sold

Heyboer was born in Sabang, on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra, then the Dutch East Indies), as the son of a mechanical engineer. Five months after his birth the family moved to Haarlem, in 1925 to Delft, in 1929 to Voorburg and from 1933 to 1938 the family lived in 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 Durchgangslager for foreign forced laborers in Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). He managed to escape and fled traumatized to the Netherlands, where he went into hiding in Vinkeveen and did agricultural work.

After the Second World War he settled in Borger and held his first exhibition in Drouwen in 1946. That same year he left for Haarlem and met his future wife, Elsa (Puk) Wijnands. After a journey of several months with Jan Kagie through the south of 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 in 1953. In 1951, Heyboer was admitted to the Santpoort psychiatric hospital in Bloemendaal for some time as a result of the war trauma. In September 1956 Heyboer married Erna Kramer, with whom he would remain together for seven years and had one daughter. In 1961 he settled in Den Ilp (north of Amsterdam). He bought a piece of land there with a cowshed, which he expanded over time with all kinds of outbuildings. He initially lived there with three, later with five women. Heyboer drew, painted and etched. His wives took care of the sales.