Ruloff S.A. Manuputty - Screen printing

This originally Moluccan artist Ruloff Manuputty (Tual- Moluccas, 1926 – Groningen, 2002) developed a very personal and uncontrived visual language after his painting and drawing training in Amsterdam and Basel.
He was considered a relative outsider in the Groningen art scene and was never a member of an art circle or society. He is often mentioned together with Henri de Wolf who called him his master and because they worked together a lot. Manuputty came to the Netherlands to learn the Western way of painting, but has always mixed this with the Eastern, more intuitive and revealing method in his own work. This resulted in a specific symbolic visual language, which can be seen as a form of his experience. The uncontrived, the simple doing, is central to his work. Manuputty wove together influences from artists such as Joan Miró and Paul Klee, Cobra art and traditional batik and decorative art from his homeland into his own visual language, which regularly balances on the border between figuration and abstraction.
In the mid-fifties, Manuputty got a job as a draftsman-designer at the Noord-Nederlandse Cliche factory, before going to work at Drukkerij Havé (1959-1967).
Size: 49 x 59 cm (hxw) Incl. frame: 61 x 51 cm (hxw) Condition: In fair condition (white part due to weathering)