Gerti Bierenbroodspot - Zeefdruk: Fallen Head (Baalbek) - Sold

Silkscreen glued on cardboard by Gerti Bierenbroodspot. Title: Fallen Head (Baalbek, Lebanon). Number: 29/180. Dimensions work on cardboard: H87 x w64.5cm. Paper dimensions: H80 x W59.5cm. The work is signed at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague).
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The deadline for the
pick up, with advance payment, is very spacious, in other words the buyer can do the work for weeks or even
pick it up months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the
the above-mentioned towns or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday. The shipping costs are a bit higher, because the work has to be sent flat due to the thickness of the cardboard where the work is glued.

Gerti Bierenbroodspot (Amsterdam, 9 May 1940) is a Dutch visual artist, poet and archaeologist.
life and work
Bierenbroodspot was educated at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and the Institute Training for Drawing Teachers, which is 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, she also designs gobelins and writes poems. She made the wall paintings for the cruise ship Rotterdam of the Holland-America Line. W ork van Bierenbroodspot was exhibited in various places in the Netherlands. Outside the Netherlands she exhibited in Brussels, New York, Amman and Beirut.
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 made a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2006 she was list pusher for the Party for the Animals.
In May 2019 she painted the mural The great wall in the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat, Amsterdam, with the children of refugees.