Hubertine Heijermans

Stijl: Contemporary Realism; Realism; Surrealism; Conceptual Art;

Plaats: Amsterdam

Geboren: 1936

Dood: 2022

Biografie:

Hubertine Heijermans was a figurative painter, a multi-plate etching artist, Swiss printmaker and engraver, living in Canton de Vaud, Switzerland since 1958. She was born in Amsterdam on 8 January 1936 and obtained a scholarship at the Academy, after 3 years of preliminary painting lessons with Jos Rovers. Her teacher is Gé Röling. She got married on 30th of sep 1958-72 to Nils Tellander and settled in Lausanne, where in 1960 their son Anian was born. From 1968 to 1972, she studied etching techniques at the Villa Schifanoia (of the European Section of Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois USA, now Dominican University) and at Fiesole, Italy. In 1972, she won the Premio Brunelleschi (a Florentine prize for painters and sculptors) with a series of seven oilpaintings of a young Haitian woman, honored by Piero Bargellini the Mayor of Florence. She then returned to Villars in Switzerland with her heavy etching press Bendini-Bologna, who is not electrically driven, but has to be turned by hand. The couple divorced in 1973. Her former husband died in 2001 in France. Hubertine Heijermans has lived and worked in Switzerland as an artist-painter and graveur Suisse since 1958. She has had her own artist studio, Atelier 'Hubertine', in Canton de Vaud since 1981.