Education
Ficheroux was educated at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam from 1945 to 1949, where he studied at the advertising and publicity department.
painter sculptor visual artist
Ficheroux was educated at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam from 1945 to 1949, where he studied at the advertising and publicity department.
He is considered among the foremost Dutch artist of the second part of the 20th century. Ficheroux is especially known for his 1960s "pink and brown paintings of objects of plastic and light reliefs (sleeping pieces), in which eroticism and alienation were important themes."
After graduation he was lecturer at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten from 1949 to 1953, where he taught fashion photography. As independent artist he started painting in 1955 and sculpting in 1960.
His style of painting developed over the years: In the 1960s he made abstract expressionist paintings, in the 1970s "bad" paintings, and in the 1980s line paintings.
In 1969 he was awarded the Hendrik Chabot Award. In the same year he took part of a sculpture exhibition at the Twente University with Woody van Amen, January van Munster and other.
A retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam in 2008.