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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)
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Public exhibitions 6
Group shows 6
2007
Strip en Kunst
Singer Laren, Laren 
2006
Nederland Grafiekland
Museums Vledder, Vledder
2005
Cobra Collectie
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
2003
CoBrA - de kleur van vrijheid
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam
2000
Held op stokken, de kunst van het vogelverschrikken
Museum De Beyerd, Breda
1998
CoBrA
KunstHaus Wien, Vienna
Dealer Directory 6
Denmark
Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg
France
L'Or du Temps, Paris
Netherlands
Nico Koster - Galerie Moderne, Amsterdam
 Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
 Paol & Co. Fine Art, Maastricht
USA
Robinsons Art Gallery, New York City, NY
Public collections 7
Belgium
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Denmark
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
Netherlands
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Heerlen
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam
Norway
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
USA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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