Armando (artist)
Armando (actually Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, born September 18, 1929 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist.
Life
As a five- year-old Armando began to play the violin. 1935 to 1950 he lived in Amersfoort. 1945-1949 he played the violin in various bands with swing and gypsy music. He studied from 1949 to 1954 Art History and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1949, he turned to drawing, 1950 wrote his first poems. After he had received in 1950 the study of art history in Amsterdam, he began to paint in 1951. In 1958 he founded the artists Kees van Bohemia, Henk Peeters on Jan Henderikse and Jan Schoonhoven, the Netherlands Informal Group, 1960, the group nul. In the years 1961-1965 he maintained close contacts with the Dutch and international Zero movement. From 1965 to 1967 he worked exclusively as a writer, in 1967 he published the book Sleutelaar Hans De SS -ers. Nederlandse vrijwilligers in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, a documentary of interviews with former members of the Waffen -SS in the Netherlands, which has produced the Netherlands stir vigorously and guided discussions. Henceforth, Armando sat again artistic and literary with his childhood memories - it was near the Kamp Amersfoort ( Police Transit Camp Amersfoort ) grew up - apart. The consistently black screen objects provide a symbolism of violence dar. He wrote seven books of poetry.
In 1973 the first sculpture. With a scholarship from the " Artists in Berlin Programme of the DAAD " Armando moved to Berlin in 1979 and wrote for the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad a regular column Armando uit Berlijn. In 1982, Armando participating artist at the documenta 7 in Kassel, in 1984, he was the Dutch Pavilion at the 41th Biennale di Venezia. 1993 Armando Quartet was founded in 1994 he published his first children's book " Dirk de dwerg ". He was appointed member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1996. In the same year he founded the HAP Grieshaber and Rolf Szymanski Jerg Ratgeb Prize was awarded by the city of Reutlingen. 1998 the Armando Museum was opened in Amersfoort, which was destroyed on 22 October 2007 by fire.
Since 2004 his paintings became more colorful, with a few black elements.
Armando lives and works in Amstelveen and Potsdam.
Collections
- Armando Museum, Amersfoort
- Museum Villa Haiss, Gengenbach
- Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
- Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
- Neues Museum Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art
- Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn