Description
Johannes Evert (Han) Hulsbergen (Hengelo, May 12, 1901 – Blaricum, March 24, 1989) was a Dutch painter and sculptor.[1] Hulsbergen moved to Amsterdam in 1927, where he trained at the Rijksacademie, as a student of Johannes Hendricus Jurres and Hendrik Jan Wolter. He received the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1930, which enabled him to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti e Liceo Artistico in Florence (1931-1932). He then returned to Amsterdam. In 1939 he settled in Blaricum with his wife. Hulsbergen painted, watercolored and drew, among other things, neorealist portraits, landscapes and figure representations. In the 1940s his work showed influences from Cubism, from the 1960s it was often abstract. In 1954 he was one of ten artists selected by the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador. Hulsbergen visited Athens and was inspired by the stories from Greek mythology. In the 1950s, Hulsbergen experimented with concrete, he made concrete paintings, but also concrete panels and reliefs that could be used in architecture. He devised a way to color the concrete throughout and developed a process that did not require the concrete to be poured. This also allowed him to make plastics. Hulsbergen called his invention, a mix of clay and concrete, meliora concrete.From 1965 onwards, Hulsbergen also made paintings with enamel. The artist was affiliated with Arti et Amicitiae and Sint Lucas, and was a member and chairman of the Gooische Schildersvereniging. He exhibited at the Centraal Museum, Hamdorff, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Goois Museum, among others. His work is included in several museum collections. Hulsbergen died at the age of 87 (Soure Wikipedia).
Sculpture in good condition, wood with black-green paint, signed and dated on the bottom of the base Hulsbergen ’59, h. 73, w. 12, d. 2, base 9,
