Matthijs Röling

[1] He is considered a kindred spirit of the 3rd generation of the Dutch Group of figurative abstraction.

"[2] Röling was born in Oostkapelle and educated at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1960 to 1963, and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam in 1963-1964.

In 1972 he became a lecturer at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, where he educated Peter Pander, Douwe Elias and Jan van der Kooi.

Along with Wout Muller he stood in Groningen at the cradle of the Northern realism.

He made together with Muller in 1987, the mural "The tree of knowledge" in the auditorium of the academy building of the University of Groningen.