Henk Schiffmacher - Dutch Tulips

Henk Schiffmacher (Harderwijk, 1952) comes from a Catholic family of butchers in Harderwijk. From a young age, he had a passion for drawing and collecting. He had little interest in school. He wanted to become a painter. His first sketches and drawings found their way into the homes and bedrooms of his uncles and aunts, and Schiffmacher won annual drawing competitions. His artistic ambition led to a short period at the REX Advertising School on Frederiksplein in Amsterdam in the early 1970s.

In the mid-1970s, he practiced various professions, including screen printer, window dresser, typographer, and reportage photographer for Nieuwe Revu. In 2000, he had a retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle. Henk Schiffmacher has exhibited extensively and collaborated on exhibitions in museums such as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
Schiffmacher is very active in the field of tattoos and during his travels he collected all kinds of items related to the history of tattooing.

Henk calls painting an unparalleled luxury. He doesn't have to consider other people's tastes. His roots as a tattoo king are often reflected in his paintings: the colored images are framed by thick black lines.

Among others, he has tattooed the following people: The members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers - The members of Pearl Jam - Kurt Cobain - Barry Hay - Willy DeVille - Herman Brood and Xandra Jansen - Anouk - Robbie Williams - Lady Gaga. On November 5, 2011, the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, the largest tattoo museum in the world, opened and is dedicated to the mother of all arts: tattooing. At the heart of the museum is the unique collection that Schiffmacher has put together in more than thirty years. The collection consists of hundreds of tattoo machines and hand tools, countless photos, flash (tattoo examples), paintings, drawings, sculptures and even pieces of tattooed skin.

Publisher: Henk Schiffmacher Artmarketing.nl

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