Printmaking: Etching
During the war years he was intensely engaged in the making of etchings, the so-called war series.
In 1950 Hub. Levigne was appointed professor of graphic design at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
From 1963 Levigne worked again mainly in etchings with aquatint, a technique which offered more possibilities for applying shadows and atmosphere creating shades of grey rather than engraving. For etching 1963 was a very productive year with the series of 'Vreemde wezens' and 'Overblijfselen van de mens'.
The technique of etching with aquatint he had previously applied, during the last years of the war and liberation.
Now he explored the boundaries between figurative paintings and abstraction, and created dream worlds in black and white. The years 1965-1970 went intense fertile in terms of the graphic arts. In 1970, a large exhibition with the students of the Jan van Eyck Academie took place.
At age of almost sixty Levigne was able to renew himself.
See some of his work.
