Armando (1929-2018) - Ohne Titel.

Armando (actually Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd; born September 18, 1929 in Amsterdam; died July 1, 2018 in Potsdam) was a prominent Dutch artist of the modern era.

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Details about the specified artwork: Giclée on hand-made cotton paper. Lower right, signed in pencil (original).

The work dates from his last creative phase. It was never hung and had been kept for years in an artist's portfolio. The condition is flawless. The publisher's stamp is in the paper (dry).

The present specimen is an artist's proof -épreuve d'artiste- outside the trade (“e.a.”) from the edition of the Galerie F publishing house. Copies bearing the e.a. designation exist in a much smaller quantity and appear—even as in this case—after the artist's death, for example, and are often traded at a higher price than the usual copies for collectors' reasons.

The print run on the market was 30 copies.

Size: 64 x 53 cm.


LIFE
(Source: Wikipedia)

Studied art history and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam from 1949 to 1954. From 1949 onward, he produced his first drawings and poems. After 1950 he began painting. In 1958 he helped found the Dutch 'Informal' Group with the artists Kees van Bohemen, Henk Peeters, Jan Henderikse, and Jan Schoonhoven, and in 1960 the group 'nul'. From 1961 to 1965 he maintained intensive contacts with the Dutch and international Zero movement. From 1965 to 1967 he worked as a writer. In 1967 he published, with Hans Sleutelaar, the highly discussed book 'De SS-ers. Nederlandse vrijwilligers in de Tweede Wereldoorlog,' a documentation of interviews with former members of the Waffen-SS in the Netherlands. Recurring artistic and literary themes include his childhood memories; he grew up near Kamp Amersfoort (Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort).

In 1973 the first sculpture was created. With a fellowship from the Berlin Artists Programme of the DAAD, Armando moved to Berlin in 1979 and wrote for the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad the regular column Armando uit Berlijn. In 1982 Armando was a participating artist at documenta 7 in Kassel, and in 1984 he represented the Dutch Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale. In 1993 the Armando Quartet was founded, and in 1994 his first children's book "Dirk de dwerg" appeared. In 1996 he was elected a member of the Academy of Arts Berlin. In the same year he was awarded the Jerg-Ratgeb Prize, founded by HAP Grieshaber and Rolf Szymanski, by the city of Reutlingen. In 1998 the Armando Museum in Amersfoort was opened, which was destroyed by a fire on 22 October 2007. Since March 2012 an Armando collection has been shown at the new Museum Oud Amelisweerd (MOA) in Bunnik.

Armando lived and worked in Amstelveen and Potsdam, where he died in 2018 at the age of 88.


COLLECTIONS

MOA, Bunnik
Villa Haiss Museum, Zell am Harmersbach
Abteiberg Municipal Museum, Mönchengladbach
Neues Museum Nuremberg, Nuremberg
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Museum of Modern Art
Kunsthalle Bremen
Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
National Gallery Berlin
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Neue Galerie, Kassel