Mathieu Ficheroux

Matheus Josephus Lambertus (Mathieu) Ficheroux (22 April 1926 - 11 October 2003) was a Dutch artist, who worked as sculptor, glass painter, painter, draftsman, wall painter and installation artist. He is considered among the foremost Dutch artist of the second part of the 20th century.

Ficheroux is especially known for his 1960s "pink and brown paintings of objects of plastic and light reliefs (sleeping pieces), in which eroticism and alienation were important themes."

Biography Ficheroux was educated at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam from 1945 to 1949, where he studied at the advertising and publicity department.

After graduation he was lecturer at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten from 1949 to 1953, where he taught fashion photography. As independent artist he started painting in 1955 and sculpting in 1960. His style of painting developed over the years: In the 1960s he made abstract expressionist paintings, in the 1970s "bad" paintings, and in the 1980s line paintings.

In 1969 he was awarded the Hendrik Chabot Award. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam in 2008.

In the 1992-93 Ficheroux made large wall paintings in the former director offices in Hotel New York. In 1993 he also designed the sculpture Vergeten Bombardment (Forgotten bombardment) in memory of the bombing of Rotterdam West on 31 March 1943.

Gallery

Art works in public spaces 1975, Portret Multatuli, Rotterdam 1979, Cast iron Thonet chairs in Rotterdam city center 1984, Monument Louis Davids, Rotterdam 1991, Monumental design Poetry International, De Doelen, Rotterdam 1993, Beeldspoor, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam 1993, Monument 'het Vergeten Bombardement', Rotterdam