Gerti Bierenbroodspot - Fallen Head / Baalbek

Large lithograph by Gerti Bierenbroodspot, signed and numbered by the maker with a gold-colored marker. Printed on handmade paper and glued on a thick backing, making the printed paper edges visible (see photos). Stylishly framed in a silver-colored wooden frame. The whole is in new condition. Reflections are visible in the photos.



Due to its size and vulnerability, the work must be collected. This is possible in Utrecht, Breda, Heesch or Steenwijkerland.

Gerti Bierenbroodspot (Amsterdam, May 9, 1940) is a Dutch visual artist, poet and archaeologist. Bierenbroodspot followed training at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and the Institute for Drawing Teachers, also located there. She started painting in the old studio of her uncle Leo Gestel, who died in 1941, in Huizerhoogt, a hamlet in the municipality of Huizen (NH). She works as a painter, draftsman, etcher and sculptor, and she also designs gobelins and writes poems. She made the murals for the cruise ship Rotterdam of the Holland America Line. Bierenbroodspot's work was exhibited in various places in the Netherlands. Outside the Netherlands she has exhibited in Brussels, New York, Amman and Beirut.

Archeology is one of her most important themes. Bierenbroodspot was part of the team of archaeologists that conducted research in the Jordanian city of Petra for many years. She was also involved in archaeological research in other countries in the Middle East. In 1995 she was knighted by King Hussein of Jordan. In 1998 she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Baalbek in Lebanon, where she lived. In 1999 she was appointed knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2006 she was a list pusher for the Party for the Animals.

In May 2019, she painted the mural The great wall in Lange Leidsedwarsstraat, Amsterdam, with refugee children.