Armando - Giclee on linen: Gestalt

Giclee on linen by Armando. Title: Gestalt. Edition: EA Dimensions work: H129 x W106.5cm. Dimensions: H120 x W99.5cm. The work is signed at the bottom by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

The work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be shipped. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Armando, born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd (Amsterdam, September 18, 1929 - Potsdam, July 1, 2018), was a Dutch painter, sculptor, poet, writer, violinist, actor, journalist, film, television and theater maker. Armando was his legal name; his birth name, the pseudonym as he called it, no longer existed for him. He himself saw his work as 'Gesamtkunstwerk', for which his experiences from the Second World War in the vicinity of Camp Amersfoort formed the basis.

Biography

Armando spent his childhood in Amersfoort. Later he studied art history for several years. As a visual artist, he was part of the Dutch Informal Group, founded in 1958 by Jan Henderikse (including Kees van Bohemen, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven), which merged with the Dutch Zero movement in 1960. The members of the Nul group brought a completely new, astonishing vision of familiar things to their work. A typical example: Armando created The Black Water, a basin made of black plastic, filled with several centimeters of water, but with a great illusion of depth.
A common thread running through his prose was the processing of the past by the survivors of the war, especially by the Germans themselves, and the many shades in it that he noticed.
As a poet and artist he was also involved with De Nieuwe Stijl and Gard Sivik. In addition to the visual arts and literature, he was also active in journalism, theater, television, music (as a violinist in Tata Mirando's gypsy orchestra) and sports (including amateur boxing). He played with Cherry Duyns and Johnny van Doorn in Herenleed for twenty-five years, first in the television series and then in the theater version - absurd, slow scenes from a life with master-servant relationships.
Anton de Goede talks about Armando, among others, Credits: Jeroen van Kan
From 1979 onwards he lived alternately in Amstelveen and Berlin for more than 25 years, where he worked in the old studio of the Nazi sculptor Arno Breker until 1989. From that time on he lived in Amstelveen, but he had plans to settle in Amersfoort, the city of 'his' museum, the Armando Museum. On October 22, 2007, this museum was completely destroyed by a raging fire, with the loss of almost the entire collection and part of the documentation archive. Part of the rescued collection was transferred to the new Museum Oud Amelisweerd (MOA) in Bunnik. The first exhibition of this collection in Oud-Amelisweerd was opened by Princess Beatrix on March 21, 2014.
His poetry collection Stemmen was published in 2013. In November 2015, 21 new poems were published by Uitgeverij Koppernik under the title Why.
In 2017 he performed with I heard that people were listening, accompanied by the Ukrainian accordionist and bandoneonist Oleg Lysenko, in which he recited his own work. In 2019, a year after his death, Cherry Duyns paid tribute to Armando with the same program.
Armando died on July 1, 2018 in the German city of Potsdam. Following his death, Museum Voorlinden has brought forward a retrospective exhibition planned for 2019. This would have been part of his ninetieth birthday. The exhibition could be viewed until May 5, 2019.
The work of art he designed, Der Bogen, in the public space of Amstelveen, is the largest work of art he ever made for public space.