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Leon Adriaans (1944-2004)
biography
For many people Leon Adriaans is the typical Brabant artist/farmer who, from his self-sought isolation, free from the established art world, paints on cattle feed sacks, tarpaulin and rough planks.
In one respect Adriaans is completely Brabant in his themes of agricultural life, his carthorses and his pigeons. Yet this is only the point of departure for the artist for whom painting is a matter of life and death. Existential and universal subjects were for him what it was actually all about: the very lifeblood, as he wrote, the untraveled domains of the soul, the quest for insight. This searching expressed itself in multicoloured, direct paintings with maximum power of expression about euphoria, consolation and forgiveness, about the creative fire and the painter’s hell.
work
Leon Adriaans, panel 36.3 x 47.5 cm
Leon Adriaans, 1988, panel 34.5 x 43 cm
Leon Adriaans, 1998, oil on canvas, 18 x 13 cm
exhibitions
(selection after 1995)
- 2010 - Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam
- 2008 - galerie Dom'arte, Rucphen
- 2008 - Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch
- 2007 - Kunsthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden
- 2006 - Galerie Smarius/Steven Sterk Gorredijk
- 2005 - 'Retrospective', Museum Belvedere Heerenveen
- 2005 - Galerie De Zaal Delft
- 2004 - 'Hommage aan Leon Adriaans', Noordbrabants Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
- 2003 - Galerie De Zaal Delft
- 2003 - De Weijerkapel Boxmeer
- 2003 - Grafisch Atelier 's-Hertogenbosch
- 2002 - 'Eigen Weg', tentoonstelling De Zaal Delft
- 2002 - 'Eigen Weg', Noordbrabants Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
- 2001 - Galerie Arti Capelli 's-Hertogenbosch
- 1998 - 't Coopmanshûys Franeker
- 1998 - Herman Molendijk Stichting Amersfoort
- 1998 - Art Boek Amsterdam
- 1997 - Galerie Arti Capelli 's-Hertogenbosch
- 1995 - Galerie Waalkens Finsterwolde
- 1995 - Galerie De Zaal Delft