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Matthijs Nicolaas Röling (born March 31, 1943 in
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Matthijs Nicolaas Röling (born March 31, 1943 in Oostkapelle
Oostkapelle is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Veere, and lies about 9 km north of Middelburg. Oostkapelle was a separate municipality until 1966, when it was merged with Domburg.
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) is a Dutch painter, active as graphic designer, wall painter, painter, draftsman, lithographer, pen artist, etcher, and academy lecturer. He is considered a kindred spirit of the 3rd generation of the Dutch Group of figurative abstraction. Röling is described as the "figurehead of contemporary figurative painting in the Netherlands."
Life and work
Röling was educated at theRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague
The Royal Academy of Art (KABK, nl, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten) is an art and design academy in The Hague. Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (part of the Confrerie Pictura), the academy was founded on 29 September 1682, m ...
from 1960 to 1963, and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam in 1963-1964. His first museum exhibition took place in 1965 in the Drents Museum
The Drents Museum () is an art and history museum in Assen, Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The museum was opened in 1854. It has a collection of prehistorical artifacts, applied art, and visual art. The museum also has temporary exhibitions. In 2 ...
in Assen. In 1972 he became a lecturer at the Academie Minerva
Academie Minerva is a Dutch art academy.
The academy was founded in 1798 in Groningen as a school for arts, architecture, construction engineering, and seamanship.Dijk, F. van (1998) ''Leraren van de Academie Minerva. Een keuze uit twee eeuwen k ...
in Groningen, where he educated Peter Pander, Douwe Elias and Jan van der Kooi. He also lectured at the Classical Academy for fine art in Groningen.
His artistic breakthrough came in 1976 with a series of still lifes, which he called ''cabinets.'' In 1983 he made his first big mural in the Nijsinghhuis in Eelde.
Along with Wout Muller he stood in Groningen at the cradle of the Northern realism. He made together with Muller in 1987, the mural "The tree of knowledge" in the auditorium of the academy building of the University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...
. Right down on the painting can be recognized the faces of Professor Bert Röling
Bernard Victor Aloysius "Bert" Röling (26 December 1906 – 16 March 1985) was a Dutch jurist and founding father of polemology in the Netherlands. Between 1946 and 1948 he acted as the Dutch representative for the International Military Tribu ...
, the father of Matthijs, and Professor of Art History Henk van Os
Henk is a Dutch male given name, originally a short form of Hendrik. It influenced "Hank" which is used in English-speaking countries (mainly in the US) as a form of "Henry". People named "Henk" include:
Academics
*Henk Aertsen (born 1943), Dutc ...
, initiator for the mural.
Awards and honors
* 1994 - Amsterdam Award for the Arts. * 1994 - Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Art. * 2005 - Sacha Tanja medal for Dutch Figurative Art. * 2011 - Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion.Exhibitions (selection)
* 1993: Galerie Mokum in Amsterdam. * 1997: Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde. * 2005:Drents Museum
The Drents Museum () is an art and history museum in Assen, Drenthe, in the Netherlands. The museum was opened in 1854. It has a collection of prehistorical artifacts, applied art, and visual art. The museum also has temporary exhibitions. In 2 ...
in Assen, and former Scheringa Museum of Realist Art
Scheringa Museum of Realist Art (until 2005, Frisia Museum) was a museum in Spanbroek, North Holland, the Netherlands that housed around five hundred works of the 20th-century art mainly realist art and contemporary. It opened in February 1997 and ...
in Spanbroek.
* 2008: Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum in Domburg
Domburg is a seaside resort on the North Sea, on the northwest coast of Walcheren in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Veere, and lies about 11 km northwest of the city of Middelburg, the provincial capital ...
* 2014: "Artists choose artists" in Museum Martena, Franeker.
Trivia
* Matthijs Röling is the oldest son of juristBert Röling
Bernard Victor Aloysius "Bert" Röling (26 December 1906 – 16 March 1985) was a Dutch jurist and founding father of polemology in the Netherlands. Between 1946 and 1948 he acted as the Dutch representative for the International Military Tribu ...
* Röling is a cousin of artist Marte Röling
Marte Röling (Born 16 December 1939) is a Dutch artist and actress.
Life and work
Röling was born as the second child of Gé Röling and Martine Antonie (actually: Tonny Grolle). Her parents were both artists. From the age of sixteen, she st ...
References
External links
*Matthijs Röling - Kunstenaars - Art Revisited
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