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 modern artist.

https://www.armando-deutsch.nl/werksverzeichnis

Information about the listed artwork: Giclée on handmade cotton paper. Original signed in pencil on the lower right.

The work comes from his final period of activity. 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 copy is an artist’s copy outside the trade ("e.a.") from the publisher’s edition Galerie F. Copies with the e.a. designation exist in far smaller numbers and, as in this case, appear, for example after the artist’s death, and are often traded at a higher price than the regular copies for collector reasons.

The edition available on the market consisted of 30 copies.

Size: 64 x 53 cm.

LIFE
(Source: Wikipedia)

Study of Art History and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam from 1949 to 1954. From 1949, first drawings and poems. After 1950 he began painting. In 1958, the founding of the Dutch group "Informal" with the artists Kees van Bohemen, Henk Peeters, Jan Henderikse, and Jan Schoonhoven, and in 1960 the group "nul". From 1961 to 1965 intensive contacts with the Dutch and international Zero movement. From 1965 to 1967 work as a writer. In 1967 he published with Hans Sleutelaar the much-discussed book "De SS-ers. Nederlandse vrijwilligers in de Tweede Wereldoorlog," a documentary 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 stipend from the “Berlin Artists’ Programme of the DAAD,” Armando moved to Berlin in 1979 and wrote a regular column for NRC Handelsblad, Armando uit Berlijn. In 1982 Armando participated as a contributing artist in documenta 7 in Kassel, in 1984 he represented the Dutch Pavilion at the 41st Venice Biennale. In 1993 the Armando Quartet was founded, in 1994 his first children’s book “Dirk the Dwarf” appeared. In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In the same year he was awarded the Jerg-Ratgeb Prize (established by HAP Grieshaber and Rolf Szymanski) by the city of Reutlingen. In 1998 the Armando Museum in Amersfoort opened, which was destroyed by a fire on October 22, 2007. Since March 2012, a collection of Armando works has been exhibited in the new MOA (Museum Oud Amelisweerd) 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
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Neues Museum Nürnberg, 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