Cor LitjensUNFINISHED BUILDING

BIOGRAPHY

Cor Litjens was born in Nijmegen, Holland in 1956. From 1976 to 1981 Litjens studied art education at the “Tehatex College” in Nijmegen. He then decided to become a professional artist and opened his own studio in 1981. At the same time Litjens obtained his first important commission for a monumental work and since then he has dedicated himself to sculpture full time, participating in numerous personal and collective exhibitions. He creates large, monumental sculptures and small detailed sculptures, mostly cast in bronze, sometimes in combination with stone. Together with other artists he started a gallery and a sculpture park in Beuningen. This was an experimental park, where young artists could test and realize their concepts.

His work is characterized by the use of elements and shapes coming from scenographic nature and monumental architecture. His subjects represent mountains, houses, gates, trees, bridges and squares; but also, cliffs, coasts, rivers, courtyards, islands and entire cities. Sometimes these elements and shapes are only abstractly recognizable, detached from their original environment, other times they are transformed in a very concrete way into figurative images.
Litjens’ sculptures resemble buildings and parts of them: he creates floors, walls, rooms and corridors in bronze or steel, in which window and door openings give access to other surprising spaces. As happens here in the Park.