Colour lithograph, Ru van Rossem, Insect on Rock, 1962

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Colour lithograph, Ru van Rossem, Insect on Rock, 1962

Ru van Rossem, Insect on Rock, 1962
Colour lithograph
Number 2/40
The work is signed by the artist, titled and individually numbered (in pencil)
Sheet dimensions 71/48
Unframed

Rudolf van Rossem was born on 19 March 1924 in Amsterdam. From 1943, he studied at the National Institute for the Education of Drawing Teachers in Amsterdam, under Arend Hendriks and Jan van Tongeren. In the first half of the 1950s, he lived in England, where he taught at Great Yarmouth College of Art, and from 1958 to 1985 he taught at the Academy in Tilburg. His students included Karin Deneer, Hans Innemée, Phil Weterings and Ad Willemen. As an artist, Van Rossem produced sculptures, drawings and pen drawings, woodcuts and copper engravings, bookplates, lithographs, stage designs and costume designs. He won a gold medal at the Accademia Delle Belle Arti in Parma, a graphic art prize at the Gorizia Biennale, the Europäische Kulturpreis, and gold at the Perugia Biennale in 1972. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Van Rossem was a member of BBK, De Grafisch and the London Society of Wood Engravers, as well as an honorary member of the Accademia Delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. Works by Ru van Rossem have been sold at auction on numerous occasions, achieving prices of over 1,500 dollars.

The work is in original vintage condition.