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Matthijs Nicolaas Röling (31 March 1943 – 10 July 2024) was a Dutch painter, active as graphic designer, wall painter, painter, draftsman, lithographer, pen artist, etcher, and academy lecturer.[1] He is considered a kindred spirit of the 3rd generation of the DutchGroup of figurative abstraction. Röling is described as the "figurehead of contemporary figurative painting in the Netherlands."[2]
Röling was born inOostkapelle and educated at theRoyal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1960 to 1963, and at theRijksacademie in Amsterdam in 1963-1964. His first museum exhibition took place in 1965 in theDrents Museum in Assen. In 1972 he became a lecturer at theAcademie Minerva in Groningen, where he educated Peter Pander, Douwe Elias andJan van der Kooi. He also lectured at the Classical Academy for fine art in Groningen.
His artistic breakthrough came in 1976 with a series of still lifes, which he calledcabinets. In 1983 he made his first big mural in theNijsinghhuis in Eelde.
Along with Wout Muller he stood in Groningen at the cradle of the Northern realism. He made together with Muller in 1987, the mural "The tree of knowledge" in the auditorium of the academy building of theUniversity of Groningen. Right down on the painting can be recognized the faces of ProfessorBert Röling, the father of Matthijs, and Professor of Art HistoryHenk van Os, initiator of the mural.
Röling died byeuthanasia inEzinge, on 10 July 2024, at the age of 81.[3][4]
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