Hindenburg, Lakehurst 1937 Painting

Juan Maria Bollé is a Flemish painter with Spanish roots on his grandmother’s side. He is born in Vilvoorde, near Bussels, in Belgium December 1958. In 1985 he finished his studies at the St. Lucas Institute of Fine Arts in Brussels. Juan Maria Bollé is a painter 'pur sang’. In his recent paintings he choosed for mixed media technique. Bollé is not searching for what makes a work of art contemporary or not, but on the contrary, to what makes a painting timeless. Juan Maria Bollé’s paintings are based on photographic reproductions to launch a personal manipulation and interpretation of the image. The realistic fragments are common, but the global context and interpretation is complex. The paintings evoke a scale of associations and emotions, are often suggestive and characterised by a multiplicity of meaning. Therefore they transcend the realistic iconography.