Corné Akkers The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands Artist

Corne Akkers

Netherlands

My work can be seen in many countries all over the world. I employ a variety of styles that all have one thing in common: the ever search for the light on phenomena and all the shadows and light planes they block in. My favorites in doing so are oil paint, dry pastel and graphite pencil. It is not the form or the theme that counts but the way planes of certain tonal quality vary and block in the lights. Colours are relatively unimportant and can take on whatever scheme. It is the tonal quality that is ever present in my work, creating the illusion of depth and mass on a flat 2d-plane. I combine figurative work with the search for abstraction because neither in extremo can provide the desired art statement the public expects from an artist. Besides all that, exaggeration and deviation is the standard and results in a typical use of a strong colour scheme and a hugh tonal bandwith, in order to create art that, when the canvas or paper would be torn into pieces, in essence still would be recognizable. ​​
I teach art (drawing / painting) at Voorburg, Netherlands where I have my second studio next to my first at The Hague, Netherlands, where I live.

Biography

1969, born in Nijmegen. I did art for whole my life, even before I could walk. I didn't want to choose a poor life and be ruined by the absence of real craftsmanship at art school. I decided to go on painting and sketching as a private person and became a lawyer in stead. At the beginning of the Millenium I felt a growing unconfortableness with my job as a lawyer and being an artist was in the blood. I decided to quit my job and become an artist, first parttime and fultime. From 2009 on I became an art teachter and today I run art classes with an aggregate amount of 80 students per week.

Awards

Not in the formal sense of the words. Only recognition from buyers and students I teach., I guess.

Education

- 1988 - 1994 - European law and business law at Leiden University, Netherlands.

portrait of a wet dream
Painting, 39.4 H x 47.2 W x 2 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

art deco nude
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Autumn Tree at Laren
Painting, 23.6 H x 31.5 W x 1.2 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

chinese nude
Painting, 31.5 H x 23.6 W x 2 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Flowering Trees (2014) (sold)
Drawing, 19.7 H x 25.6 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Loving the alien (2011)
Painting, 24.4 H x 22.4 W x 1.2 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Pastel Study (2012)
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Cubistic sitting nude (2013)
Painting, 31.5 H x 23.6 W x 0.8 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Cubistic sitting nude (2014)
Painting, 31.5 H x 28.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Tree at The Hague Golf 1 (2014)
Drawing, 5.8 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Hommage 1 to Man Ray
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Berg en Dal 07
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Nude 015
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Lane at The Hague Golf & Country Club
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Bettie Page
Drawing, 8.3 H x 5.8 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Sans titre - 06-05-14
Drawing, 8.3 H x 5.8 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Cubistic nude 03
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Utah
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Cubistic Woman
Painting, 28.1 H x 22.4 W x 1.2 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Mill De Vlieger - 09-06-14
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Splash (2013)
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Louise Brooks (2014)
Painting, 31.5 H x 23.6 W x 1.6 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude 013 (2013) (temp. on exhibition)
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Sans titre - 07-01-15
Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude 01
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Meyendel - 21-02-15
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude 02
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Maria Harp - 04-03-15
Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude 04
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Sans titre - 06-08-15
Drawing, 21 H x 29.7 W x 1 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

The birth of new cubism
Drawing, 5.8 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Rotterdam - Coolhaven - 02-03-16 (sold)
Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.7 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Round Cubism - 14-0814
Drawing, 5.8 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Sans titre - 06-10-16
Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Roundism - 18-08-14
Drawing, 11.7 H x 16.5 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Sans titre - 25-10-16 (sold)
Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Roundism - 06-10-14
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 a 4th tribute to Man Ray (Lee Miller)
Drawing, 16.5 H x 11.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Reclining Nude - 10-11-14
Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Roundism - Bettie Page - 31-01-15
Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Roundism - 02-02-18

Roundism - 11-02-18

 Nude - 19-07-15

Drawing, 21 H x 29.7 W x 1 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude - 19-07-15 - 2

Drawing, 21 H x 29.7 W x 1 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

  Roundism – 12-05-18

 The return of Bettie Page - 12-08-15

Painting, 47.2 H x 33.5 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Model session @ Leidschendam – 14-05-18

 Nude - 25-08-15

Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.7 W x 1 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude - 04-10-15

Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

Nude - 04-03-16 

Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Nude - 07-10-15

Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.7 W x 0.4 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Nude - 25-03-16

Drawing, 8.3 H x 11.7 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Nude - 07-12-16

Drawing, 11.7 H x 8.3 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Adam & Eve - 08-05-13

Drawing, 25.6 H x 19.7 W x 0 in
Corné Akkers
Netherlands

 Alexandra Moreels - 10-06-15

 Corné Akkers

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