Hannes Postma - Dame met hoed, Kleurenlitho - Sold

Monogrammed and numbered in pencil 'HP 171/190' Hannes Postma gained international fame in the 1960s with series of large color etchings. Between 1970 and 1978 he made his 'sea paintings'. In 1973 this led to the Hoek van Hollandse School. With some former students of the Rotterdam academy he formed an anarchist art group, which aimed to exclude any influence from outside (teachers, traditions). After a while everyone went their own way again and Hannes Postma sought affiliation with the New Figuration. Striking similarities in the work of painters who belong to the New Figuration are: the combination of figurative and abstract elements, a tension between the flat surface and the illusion of space, bright use of color, sharp contours and pop art elements. Hannes Postma was educated at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. During the period 1971-1988 he was a teacher at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam.