RUDOLF BIKKERS
BROWSE AVAILABLE WORK BELOW
The Benz Gallery is honored to collaborate with the estate of Rudolf Bikkers. We have access to a wide selection of his original works as well as his monoprint series. Please feel free to reach out if you’re interested in learning more or viewing these pieces.
About Rudolf Bikkers.
Rudolf Bikkers RCA was a Canadian painter, printmaker, educator and entrepreneur. In 1960 at the age of 17, he was the youngest student to be admitted to the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on a six-year scholarship and graduated with honours in 1966. He studied the cello with Bob Reuling for two years, followed by four years with Chrétien Bonfrère at the Conservatorium of Maastricht. In the summer of 1966 he emigrated to Canada. From 1967 to 1969, he taught drawing at H.B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario. From 1969 to 1976, he was Chair of the Printmaking Department at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. In 1975, he established the Master Print Studio “Editions Canada Inc.”, custom printing and publishing many Canadian and international artists, among them Greg Curnoe, Jack Chambers, Ed Bartram, Clark McDougall, Walter Redinger, Claude Breeze, Karel Appel and Paul Jenkins. In 1983, he became the Chair of Printmaking at OCA, (now OCAD University) in Toronto where he taught until July 1, 2012.
Among his fundraising initiatives is the AIDS (Artists International Direct Support) portfolio for Sub-Saharan children affected by HIV/AIDS (2000) and the RCA/EPSON Painters Portfolio (2002). Since 1967 Rudolf Bikkers has had over 20 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 45 group shows in Canada and abroad.
His work is represented in many national and international collections, including: The AGO Toronto – The Canadian Graphic Society – Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery – McIntosh Gallery, Western University, London – York University, Toronto – Philips, Eindhoven – Sears Building, Chicago – Art Bank, Canada Council – National Archives, Ottawa – Metro Toronto Reference Library – The Banff Centre, Alberta – Hamilton Art Gallery – Art Gallery of Windsor – Blauwhoed, Rotterdam – KLM Airlines – The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery – The Toronto Stock Exchange – The Royal Conservatory of Music and Koerner Hall, Toronto – MacDonald Stewart Art Centre.
He has received several Honorable Mentions and Purchase Awards, (Ernst and Young Printmaking, C.W. Jefferies, A.J. Casson Award). Bikkers was elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) in 2001 and was awarded The Queens Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002.
