Harrie Gerritz - De gele kerk

Harrie Gerritz
Year: 1998
Edition: 33/200
Title: The Yellow Church
Technique: Screen print
Dimensions of the image: 49 x 66.5 cm
Dimensions of the frame: 63 x 81 cm
Condition: In good condition.
This screen print is framed in a wooden silver frame. The frame is 2.5 cm wide and 1.5 cm high, the frame has some wear and tear as seen in the photos.

Harrie Gerritz (1940)
Harrie calls himself a landscape painter, but it would be a long search to find a landscape like the one he paints. His interest lies in ‘signs’, in concepts, in forms that do not occur in nature, for example the square. The artist ‘creates’ the square by connecting horizontal and vertical lines, such as a horizon and a church tower, or a river and trees.

And he is involved with the ‘constructed landscape’, to which humans have added geometric shapes: the block forms of a house, a paving stone, a church tower or a fence.
Over the years, his work has become increasingly abstract. The palette is of great importance. From the very beginning, Harrie works with colors he knew from the world of printing: yellow, blue, red and black. He still handles them well; they suit his tendency toward reduction.
"Being an artist means that from morning to night, from spring to winter, you are busy with your work as the driving force of existence. I don’t wait for inspiration. I wake up and think: today I want to experience something! To make a good painting, for example," says Harrie Gerritz.
His work has been exhibited in numerous leading museums: we mention only Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Cobra Museum and the Singer Museum. He is also known beyond national borders: he has exhibited internationally in cities such as Hamburg, New York, Moscow and Seoul.

1940 Born on January 1 in Wijchen
1957 – 1959 Academy of Visual Arts, Arnhem
1959 – 1960 Military service in New Guinea
1961 – 1964 Continued studies at the Academy of Visual Arts, Arnhem
1996, 1999 and 2004 Visiting professor at the International Academy Pentiment at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg
2003 Royal decoration Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion
2004 Award Mont Blanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg
2011 Retrospective ‘The Imagination of the River Landscape’, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen

Exhibitions (selection)
2000 Galerie von Loeper, Hamburg
2000 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
2002 Seasons Galleries, The Hague
2003 Art Cologne (Park Ryu Sook Gallery)
2004 De Zonnehof, Amersfoort
2004 Mont Blanc Cultural Foundation, Hamburg
2005 Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
2006 Art Cologne Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
2007 Art Amsterdam (Galerie Clement)

2008 Stadsmuseum, IJsselstein
2009 Galerie Clement, Amsterdam
2011 Galerie Wansink, Maastricht
2011 Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
2012 Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
2012 Galerie Indruk, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2013 International Manifestation 12+12,
2013 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2013 Museum Roedomino, Moscow
2013 Galerie Clement, Amsterdam
2014 Dagmar Schmidla Galerie, Cologne
2014 Alicia Winters Galería, Arnhem
2015 Gallerie M. Skagen (DK)
2015 Galerie de Natris, Nijmegen
2016 Dagmar Schmidla Galerie, Cologne
2016 Galerie De Vis, Harlingen
2016 Museum Jan Cunen, Oss
2017 Galerie Indruk, ’s-Hertogenbosch
2017 Art Noord, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
2017 Museum Arnhem
2018 Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
2018 Museum Kasteel, Wijchen
2018 Dit Eiland, Wassenaar
2018 Galerie de Natris, Nijmegen