Armando (1929-2018) - IN RED

Armando (actually Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd; born 18 September 1929 in Amsterdam; died 1 July 2018 in Potsdam) was a significant Dutch contemporary artist.

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

Information about the listed artwork: Giclée on handmade cotton paper. Signed in pencil in the bottom right.

The work comes from his final period of activity. It has never been hung and has been kept in an artist’s portfolio for years. The condition is flawless. The publisher’s stamp is in the paper (dry stamp).

The present exemplar is an artist’s proof outside the trade ("e.a.") from the Verlag Galerie F edition. Exemplar markings with the e.a designation exist in a far smaller quantity and appear—as in this case—often after the artist’s death and are frequently traded at a higher price than the usual copies for collector reasons.

The edition offered in the market consisted of 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 onwards, he produced drawings and poems. After 1950 he began painting. In 1958 he co-founded the Dutch group “Informal” with 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 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 his first sculpture appeared. With a grant from the Berlin Artists’ Program of the DAAD, Armando moved to Berlin in 1979 and wrote the regular column Armando uit Berlijn for the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. 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, 1994 saw the publication of his first children’s book “Dirk de dwerg.” In 1996 he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In the same year, the city of Reutlingen awarded him the Jerg-Ratgeb Prize, founded by HAP Grieshaber and Rolf Szymanski. In 1998 the Armando Museum in Amersfoort opened, which was destroyed by a fire on 22 October 2007. Since March 2012, an Armando collection has been shown in 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
Museum Villa Haiss, 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