Armando - The animal - Sold

Color lithograph by Armando. Title: Das tier. Year: 1995. Number: 109/150.
Dimensions: H14.5 x W24cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right, by hand.
The work can be picked up in Meppel or can be shipped insured
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.
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.
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, the largest work of art he ever made for public space, is still controversial. In January 2020 it was announced that it will be moved from the Stadsplein to the Stadspark. The sculpture would look better in green.