Ru van Rossem - Large color etching "Boy with Rabbit" made in 1956 - signed in pencil - Sold

• Particularly beautiful aquatint etching made in 1956 by Ru van Rossem. Signed and dated in pencil. The etching is in very good condition.

Rudolf Harold (Ru) van Rossem (Amsterdam, 19 March 1924 – Tilburg, 18 October 2007) was a Dutch sculptor, draftsman, and graphic artist.


Van Rossem was born in Amsterdam and moved as a child with his parents to Zaandam, where he attended the lyceum. From 1943, he was trained at the National Institute for the Training of Drawing Teachers in Amsterdam, as a student of Arend Hendriks and Jan van Tongeren. In the first half of the 1950s, he lived in England, where he taught at the Great Yarmouth College of Art. From 1958 to 1985, he was a lecturer at the Tilburg Academy. His students included Karin Deneer, Hans Innemée, Phil Weterings, and Ad Willemen.

As an artist, Van Rossem created sculptures, (pen) drawings, wood and copper engravings, ex libris, lithographs, and set and costume designs, among other works. He won the gold medal of the Accademia delle belle arti in Parma, the Printmaking Prize at the Gorizia Biennial, the Europäische Kulturpreis, and gold at the Perugia Biennial (1972). He was appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2003). Van Rossem was a member of the BBK, 'De Grafische', and the London Society of Woodgravers, among others, and an honorary member of the Accademia delle arti del disegno in Florence.