Ger Lataster - untitled

Ger LATASTER untitled 1965 mixed media on paper 44 x 60 cm
Ger Lataster 1920 - 2012 Ger Lataster was a painter and was born in Schaesberg (Limburg). He is the son of a miner. After attending the School of Applied Arts in Maastricht, he went to Amsterdam in 1941 to study at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Lataster studied there with the painters Pieter Defesche and Jef Diederen. After his studies, he received the Royal Subsidy for Painting. He felt connected to the painters who painted abstract-expressionistically. This movement celebrated its heyday in the fifties and sixties. His work from the fifties is characterized by powerful and dynamic abstract forms. In the sixties, his work increasingly showed figurative aspects. In 1963, together with Mari Andriessen, Theo Mulder and Nic Jonk, he took the initiative to give young artists the opportunity to receive guidance from experienced artists. They set up the alternative art education Academy'63 in Haarlem (later Atelier 63 in Amsterdam). He continues to develop and innovate, but remains true to his abstract-expressionist way of working. He experiments with different techniques, materials and forms. The works from the eighties show symbolic elements. In 1987 he is commissioned to make a ceiling painting for the Mauritshuis in The Hague. This is an important highlight in his oeuvre. His work is also represented in museum collections at home and abroad.