About the artist
Cornelis Johannes ("Kor") Postma was born January 3, 1903 in Hilversum. He lived and worked there, in Laren, Amsterdam (1926-1939) and from 1939 in Paris, where he died on December 8, 1977.
He painted, watercoloured, drew and made linocuts. He also made ex-libri, illustrations and set designs. As an artist he is mainly self-taught. In the 1920s Kor Postma worked as a restorer at art dealership P. de Boer, where he became acquainted with the surrealist art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, André Breton and René Magritte, among others. The fame he enjoys mainly as a surrealist has its origins in the period before the Second World War in the Netherlands and afterwards in France, where he has lived since 1939.
Initially his work is expressionistic, from 1929 it becomes surrealistic and sometimes magical-realistic. After WWII, in his surrealistic work he opted for a truthful representation of the subject in a combination of realistic motifs in an unreal environment.
Kor Postma signed his work ''Cornelius Postma'' or ''Kor Postma''.
