Hans Truijen - Cobrabord 'Blue Sky' - Sold

Not just any wall plaque, 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 sold for around €145 at the time. They are all now sold out.
Dimensions: diameter 31 cm.
The board is in excellent condition
The board is supplied without the board holder.

About the artist
Johannes Paulus Franciscus (Hans) Truijen (Surabaya, February 13, 1928 – Klimmen, July 9, 2005) was a Dutch painter and stained-glass artist. He trained at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, where he studied with Jos ten Horn and Thé Lau, and graduated with honors in 1955. That same year, he received the Royal Grant for Free Painting.
Truijen created paintings, mosaics, murals, and stained-glass windows. The windows he created between 1966 and 1968 for St. Martin's Church in Wyck (Maastricht) were both praised and criticized. They are sometimes called "Pop Art windows." He combined the old and the new by applying photographs to the glass using silkscreen printing, essentially creating collages. In this way, he combined the suffering 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 created a large Pop Art window for the Savelberg Monastery in Heerlen. In the 1980s, he created windows for the train stations in Heerlen and Voerendaal with a composition of elements related to travel. Truijen had his windows made at the Flos studio in Steyl, the Hubert Felix studio in Maastricht, and the Joëlle d'Alsace studio in Lanaken.
A striking example of his painting is the St. Catherine Chapel in Oud-Lemiers, a Romanesque hall church, the walls and ceiling of which he painted in 1978. Truijen was awarded the prestigious Dutch Design Award for his contribution to the Dutch landscape.