Philip Akkerman - Ingelijste tekening: Zelfportret - 1986

Framed pencil drawing by Philip Akkerman. Self portrait. Year: 1986. Dimensions including frame: H54 x W45cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H38 x W32cm. The work is signed in pencil lower right by the artist with his initials. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


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In 1946, Eugène Brands took part in the group exhibition Young Painters in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where an entire room was filled with his work. There he maintained good contacts with director Sandberg, who had promised him a (solo) exhibition.

When he had joined the Experimental Group in Holland in 1948, he took on the task of looking after the contacts with the Stedelijk Museum. This led to the International Exhibition of Experimental Art in November 1949. In the meantime, the Cobra movement had also been founded by Constant Nieuwenhuijs, Corneille, Karel Appel, Christian Dotremont and Asger Jorn. Thus, this large group exhibition was Cobra's first public manifestation. There were a number of large works by Eugène Brands that had been specially made for the exhibition.

Due to differences of opinion and mutual quarrels as a result of this exhibition, he left the Cobra movement and distanced himself from it. He also went his own way in an artistic sense. In the 1950s he made work that was inspired by children's drawings, including those of his daughter Eugénie.[1] It was not until the 1960s that he returned to the Cobra color palette.

In addition to paintings, Brands also made assemblages, using the same abstraction and color palette as in his paintings. In 2012, two collections of experimental poems and stories from his legacy work were published.

The group exhibition organized by Sandberg in 1962 ultimately marked Eugène Brands' breakthrough. He no longer had to live on the counter-performance.

From 1967 he taught at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch. From 1973 he worked in the summers in Nunspeet, later he also had a studio in Provence.