Nico Molenkamp - shooting bird

Nico Molenkamp
shooting bird 1993
screen printing on paper
circulation 80/275
28.5 x 24 cm
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144 pages, hardcover, full-col, text M. van bommel, Frans duister, M. van den hoogenhoff,
Hans Paalman, Ed Wingen
Printing house Van Spijk, Venlo 1989
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Catalog soft cover, full col, 24 pages
Published by Galerie Willy Schoots, October 2nd to November 4th, 1996
in the Eindhoven city theater on the occasion of the donation of the painting "Henk van Ulzen"

Nicolaas (Nico) Ferdinand Molenkamp (Enschede 1920 – Tilburg 1998)
Molenkamp began as a designer in a textile factory. He studied at the precursor of the Academy of Fine Arts (1945-1948) and at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1949-1953). From 1953 to 1982, Molenkamp taught free painting at the Tilburg Academy, where he had trained. He primarily painted abstract animal and human figures, which he framed on canvas in an almost cinematic way and rendered with striking color schemes. He also drew inspiration from the circus, the fair, and the theater. Molenkamp received awards for his work, including the Talens Prize, the Willink van Collen Prize, and the Verlat Prize. In 1956, he painted a modern Stations of the Cross in the friary on Kardinaal de Jongplein. Another well-known work by Molenkamp in Tilburg is a portrait of Mayor Cees Becht. In 1970, he and his family moved into Koningshoeven, a former country residence of King William II. His daughter Charlotte Molenkamp also grew up there.