Cees Kortlang - Large hand-coloured relief Etching/aquatint - penciled - Epr. d'Art. copy

Intriguing, large hand-colored relief etching/aquatint "Hyroglyphs" , made in 1994 as an Epreuve d'Artiste copy by the versatile visual artist Cees Kortlang (1926-2008). This etching is part of a larger series of graphics from the estate of the Slim family in Ermelo, who were very good friends with Cees Kortlang.
The etching is in very good condition and is signed and numbered in pencil.







Cees Kortlang was born in 1926 in Harderwijk (NL). Cees is a painter, graphic artist, ceramist and paints in various movements. At the beginning of his career he started painting figurative art, from 1958 he started working abstractly.

Kortlang studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, majoring in drawing, but did not graduate. Cees Kortlang made paintings and also began making etchings in the 1960s. Initially he worked in black and later he began experimenting with colour. After 1966 colour finally broke through.

The collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam contains twenty works by Kortlang. The exhibitions kept coming and Kortlang exhibited at home and abroad, including in Galerie De Drie Hendricken in Amsterdam, Galerie Frederic in Amsterdam, Galerie Horn in Luxembourg, Galerie de Luxembourg in Luxembourg and in the Schloss Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg.