Hans Truijen - Cobrabord 'Blue Sky' - Sold

Not just a wall plate, but a real work of art from the Cobra stable made in 1997. According to the son of the artist Hans Truijen, who died in 2005, this plate was sold for around €145 at the time. They are all sold out now. Dimensions: diameter 31 cm. Board is in excellent condition Board is offered without the board holder About the artist Johannes Paulus Franciscus (Hans) Truijen (February 13, 1928 in Surabaya – July 9, 2005 in Klimmen) was a Dutch painter and glazier. He was educated at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, where he was taught by Jos ten Horn and Thé Lau and graduated cum laude in 1955. In that year he received the Royal Subsidy for Free Painting. Truijen made paintings, mosaics, murals and stained glass windows. The windows he made in 1966-1968 for the Sint-Martinuskerk in Wyck (Maastricht) were both praised and criticized. They are sometimes referred to as 'pop art windows'. He connected old and new here by applying photos to the glass using the screen printing method and making collages, as it were. For example, he brought together the Passion of Christ with the current events of the Vietnam War and the meeting of Pope Paul VI and the Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I with the Resurrection of Christ. In 1971 he made a large pop art window for the Savelberg monastery in Heerlen. In the 1980s he made windows for the stations in Heerlen and Voerendaal with a composition of elements related to travel. Truijen had his windows made at the studio Flos in Steyl, the studio of Hubert Felix in Maastricht and the studio Joëlle d'Alsace in Lanaken. A striking example of his painting is the Sint-Catharinakapel in Oud-Lemiers, a Romanesque hall church, of which he painted the walls and ceiling in 1978. Truijen was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1979 for his contribution to Dutch painting.