Variation and virtuosity: Frank Rosen manages to play the countless techniques within the visual arts.
Sculptures, paintings, watercolors, drawings, screen prints and ceramics bear witness to an impetuous emotionality, which he uses how to express himself in many ways.
Frank Rosen was educated in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1964 to 1968 . From 1969 to 1985 he was a set designer for the Dutch Television (NOB) and designer of more than three hundred television programs. Even then, his effortless ability to design decors for the most diverse broadcasts was noticeable: children’s programs, major television shows, and dramatic productions such as Sil de Strandjutter and Herodotus.
He also designed sets and costumes for musicals and ballet performances and was art director for several feature films, including Mario Puzo’s “Seven Graves for Rogan”. In 1985 he decided to go completely free-lancing and only occasionally participate in TV, film and theater productions.
Frank Rosen and his wife, Manja Siebrecht, started the Nederlands Kinder Theater (Dutch Children’s Theater) in Purmerend. Frank Rosen designed sets and costumes for the NKT for 10 musicals written and directed by Manja Siebrecht. Each musical was performed in an average of 50 theaters in the Netherlands, as well as in Moscow, Prague, Denmark, and Belgium, and even in the USA at the Alice Tully Hall in New York.
The subsidy from the gouvernement was stopped in 2004 . By selling their house in the Beemster they were able to move to France.
Manja now writes blogs , on her blogsite, manjasiebrecht.blogspot.com, although in Dutch, and Frank Rosen is still active as a visual artist at home and abroad.
