Anton Heyboer (1924-2005) - Einstein

Anton Heyboer (1924–2005) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived with four women in a commune in Den Ilp (Landsmeer). The “fifth” woman was his art dealer across the street. Heyboer was born in Sabang, on the Indonesian island of Pulau Weh (north of Sumatra), the son of a mechanical engineer. Five months after his birth, the family moved to Haarlem, then to Delft in 1925, Voorburg in 1929, and lived in Curaçao from 1933 to 1938. They later spent some time in New York. Heyboer trained as a mechanical engineer. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the family returned to Haarlem. In 1943, Heyboer was arrested by the Germans as part of the Arbeitseinsatz and taken to a transit camp for foreign forced laborers in Prenzlauer Berg (Berlin). He managed to escape and fled back to the Netherlands, traumatized, where he went into hiding in Vinkeveen and worked as a farm laborer.

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