Hannes Postma - A large ink drawing made in 1977 "3 nymphs / nude beach"

• Medium: Indian ink on Schoeller Durex paper
• Date: 1977
• Numbered: N/A / original
• Signed: with ink on the bottom
• In good condition
• Title: "3 nymphs"
• Loose leaf - sheet size 45 x 62cm

Hannes Postma was Anton Heyboer's brother-in-law. During his years in Haarlem, he developed into an outstanding graphic artist. At a certain point, he grew tired of working in editions. This hindered him in creating paintings, he said.
Art historian Ype Koopmans, artistic director of museum MORE, met him in Haarlem. Thanks to Postma, Koopmans came into contact with the art world for the first time. “He was a virtuoso artist. After his graphic period, he focused on Pop Art, but in a style entirely his own.
He changed styles constantly. He was constantly evolving. Sometimes even to my annoyance, because he painted over very beautiful canvases with something else.”
Hannes Postma gained international fame in the 1960s with series of large color etchings. Between 1970 and 1978, he created his ‘seascapes’. This led to the Hoek van Holland School in 1973. Together with a few former students of the Rotterdam Academy, he formed a small, anarchist art group aimed at excluding any outside influence (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 considered part of the New Figuration are: the combination of figurative and abstract elements, a tension between the flat plane and the illusion of space, vibrant use of color, sharp contours, and Pop Art elements.
Hannes Postma trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. During the period 1971–1988, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam.
Characteristic of his work was his ability to bind young artists to him and train them. This manifested itself in Haarlem, and later in the so-called Hoek van Hollandse School.
Postma was trained at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, but largely developed himself as a painter. He created paintings, etchings, lithographs, murals, charcoal drawings, and sculptures.
Postma won various international prizes, including the first
prize at the International Triennial for Color Printmaking in Grenchen (1964), the Prix de la Critique in Paris (1965), the A. Schwarz Prize (1966), and the Grand Prize at the Krakow Biennial (1966). In 1984, Remco Campert published the collection *Zeven vrijheidsheden*, with poems accompanying etchings by Postma.
From 1971 to 1988, Postma was affiliated with the
Rotterdam Academy as a lecturer alongside Klaas Gubbels and Kees Franse. He joined the Liga Nieuwe Beelden and De Groep Haarlem.