Ed Dukkers 1963

Ed Dukkers. Oil on linen. 80x110cm. Title: "Two Shepherds".

Eduard Willem Anton Dukkers Dukkers born on May 1, 1923 in Zandvoort and died in Amsterdam in 1996. Dukkers followed his training at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam. As a painter he is self-taught. He painted, drew and lithographed. Initially he worked in Zandvoort, but from 1940 in Amsterdam. In 1946 Willem Sandberg, director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, selects him for the exhibition “Ten young painters”, in which Appel, Corneille and Rooskens also participate. As with many at that time, Dukker's expressionist tendencies can also be observed, but he soon appears to set his goals differently. He is interested in literary, surrealist themes, in which death, eroticism and rituals are closely intertwined. Dukkers was a member of "De Keerkring" since 1956 and won the Tetar van Elven travel grant in 1052. Subsequently made many trips abroad, especially to Greece. Man is central in his entire oeuvre. From 1985 on, his work shows an increasing simplification and abstraction.

(Source: Ed Dukkers Foundation / eddukkers.org)