Bouke Ylstra - Untitled

Black and white work by The Hague's Bouke Johan Ylstra (The Hague, March 13, 1933 – Dordrecht, August 17, 2009)
Abstract representation with figures and animals Ro signed Bouke Ylstra and '85 Edition 27/?
Ylstra was a Dutch sculptor, painter, graphic artist, monumental artist and academy lecturer. Ylstra, also IJlstra, was born in The Hague and grew up in Rotterdam. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences (1950-1954) and obtained his teaching qualification. At the academy he was taught by Antoon Derkzen van Angeren, Aart Glansdorp and Wim Zwiers, among others. During his military service in the Benthienkazerne in Dordrecht, Ylstra made murals in the canteens. In 1955 he established himself as a freelance artist in Dordrecht.
Ylstra did not want to commit himself to certain techniques or artistic expressions, he wanted to do everything. He believed that an artist should work with all types of design.[2] He made paintings, etchings, silkscreens, mosaics, concrete reliefs, sculptures, ceramic walls and stained glass windows and made illustrations and covers for magazines and books. Art critic Piet Begeer described him in 1959 in Het Vrije Volk as "one of those rare versatile gifted people who seem to playfully know how to express themselves on a respectable plane in every direction and in every technique.
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