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Most exhibitions in:
Country	№
Netherlands	7
Germany	2
Brazil	1
Austria	1

Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist	Rank	№
Corneille	4226	9
Karel Appel	414	9
Constant	1303	8
Lucebert	2552	8
Eugène Brands	10772	7

Biography:

16.3.1906 Born in Horst aan de Maas-Griendtsveen, LI (NL)

Rooskens received a technical training and worked as an instrument maker in the 1930’s. As a painter he was an autodidact. Influenced by Permeke and Van Gogh, he originally worked in an Expressionistic manner. After the Second World War Rooskens developed an interest in African art and ancestral images from New Guinea and became interested in abstract forms. He exhibited the resulting paintings in 1946 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam during the «Jonge Schilders»(‘Young Painters’) exhibition, where he was noticed by kindred spirits such as Willy Boers and Ger Gerrits.

After his first visit to Paris, together with Boers and Gerrits, he met painters such as Karel Appel and Corneille, with whom, in 1948, he was to be one of the founders of the «CoBrA» movement.

The art of the «CoBra» movement was exclusively figurative, but Rooskens, like kindred spirits in New York, was particularly attracted to wholly abstract painting, as a continuation of Surrealism. This meant that Rooskens, as in the case of Ouborg, could not feel entirely at home as a painter either in «CoBrA», or in «Vrij Beelden». Something else which he had in common with Ouborg is that he included the mystical aspects of the indigenous visual language of the former Dutch East Indies in his art. In 1950, after leaving «CoBrA» he was, together with Willy Boers, among others, a founder member of «Creatie», a group of artists working in a purely abstract style. The years around 1950 were the most fruitful of Rooskens’s career and he exhibited both in The Netherlands and abroad, including numerous shows in the «Salons des Réalités Nouvelles» in Paris.
1948 - 1951 member of CoBrA

28.2.1976 Died in Amsterdam, NH (NL)

Public exhibitions 11

Group shows 11

2009