Anton Heijboer

Anton Heyboer (February 9, 1924 – April 9, 2005) was a Dutch painter and etcher. In the sixties, Heyboer's work began to attract international attention. He was a loyal customer of Galerie Espace in Haarlem and participated in several exhibitions. His work hung in the graphic arts department of the exhibitions documenta 2 in 1959, documenta 3 in 1964 and documenta 4 in 1969, all in Kassel, Germany. In 1964 he received the Japanese Oyara Museum Prize for his work Carnische mens[2] and in 1964 the Accademia Fiorentina delle arti del disegno in Florence appointed him "Academico Onorario classe incisione". In 1984, however, Heyboer broke ties with Espace and the established art world in general, to continue working in seclusion in his house in Den Ilp. However, he did not work on his success; of his works exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1975, he destroyed almost everything afterwards by painting them over. On 10 April 2002, Heyboer was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.