Gallery owner and publicist Nico van der Endt, a key figure in outsider art in the Netherlands, passed away on Sunday 19th of January at the age of 83, his family announced on Friday. Van der Endt preferred to describe the work of non-professional artists—outsiders, often with psychiatric backgrounds who developed their own techniques and […]
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Met grote droefheid moeten wij het verlies melden van Liesbeth Reith, grondlegger van de Collectie De Stadshof. Na een paar weken ziekte is zij op 13 december 2024 overleden. Het betekent een groot verlies voor onze stichting, waar zij nog actief was voor de kunstverzameling en in het bestuur. Mit großer Trauer müssen wir den […]
Read moreAnnouncement made by J. P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie, Aug. 22, 2023: Dear friends and art lovers, It was with deep sadness that we learned of the death of the great A.C.M., leaving behind a legacy that will continue to fascinate, move and amaze future generations of art lovers and artists alike. Over the years, A.C.M. won […]
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La Fabuloserie announced today the loss of the artist Jaber, who died in Paris on October 21, 2021, at the age of 83. Jaber Al-Mahjoub was born in 1938 in M’ Saken, Tunisia. Orphan at the age of three years, he was raised by his sister. In the 1950’s he became a baker’s apprentice in […]
Read moreThe Great Invocation refers to the mantra allegedly received by British writer Alice Bailey from a spirit guide in 1945, as the last battles of WWII ravaged Europe. Bailey described The Great Invocation as a synthesis of meditation, prayer, and affirmation, that would assist the world in times of unprecedented calamity, thus ‘saving humanity from […]
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Uit een Italiaans persbericht van CRISTINA NADOTTI, 17 oktober 2020: Scomparsa nella notte a 95 anni a Tuscania. (…) Una Chagall della vita semplice, un’artista capace di dare forme e colori al suo mondo interiore rendendolo, come ha osservato lo scrittore e cineasta francese Jean-Marie Drot, “pittura cosmica”. Bonaria Manca aveva visto le sue opere […]
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Galerie Herenplaats heeft vorige week afscheid genomen van Jaco Kranendonk. In 1991 werd Jaco een van de eerste deelnemers van Atelier Herenplaats. Vanaf dan tot aan 2009 tekende en schilderde hij vrijwel onafgebroken, vijf dagen in de week. Jaco Kranendonk bouwde met zijn geheel eigen handschrift een indrukwekkend oeuvre op. In dik opgebrachte verf worden […]
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Raw Vision announced the loss of the artist Davood Koochaki, who died in Tehran on June 20, 2020, at the age of 81. Born in 1939 in northern Iran, as a teenager, Koochaki left his farming family and moved to Tehran. He began drawing when he was around 40 and, after retiring from his work […]
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