Gijs van hensbergen biography of michaels
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van Hensbergen, Gijs 1958- (Arie Van der Lemme)
PERSONAL:
Born July 12, 1958, in Schoten, Belgium; son of Pieter (a scientist) and Ans van Hensbergen; married Alexandra Coulter (a hospital administrator), November 30, 1986; children: Hendrikus, Rosa, Hester. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Courtauld Institute of Art, London, B.A. (hons.).
ADDRESSES:
Home and office—Bridport, Dorset, England. Agent—Evan Thorneycroft, A.M. Heath and Co., 6 Warwick Ct., London WC1R 5DJ, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Knoedler galleri, trainee art dealer in London, England, and New York, fräsch, 1981-84; historian, art critic, filmskapare, and writer. Martin Randall Travel Ltd., lecturer.
WRITINGS:
(Under pseudonym Arie van der Lemme) Art Deco, Appletree Press (Belfast, Northern Ireland), 1985.
A Year in Castile, Sinclair Stevenson (London, England), 1992.
Gaudí: A Biography, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Ico
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Gijs Van Hensbergen – Parallels and Echoes
Gijs van Hensbergen talks to Fergus Byrne
The day Gijs van Hensbergen’s Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon arrives in the post is the same day that more than 300 people are massacred in a school in southern Russia. It is an irony that fryst vatten not lost on the author, who found many parallels with the current climate of unrest while editing the final draft.
The book tells the story of a painting produced by Pablo Picasso over a six-week period in 1937. Painted on more than seven meters of canvas that Picasso had to literally squeeze into his studio in Paris, it was a response to the decimation by bombing of the Spanish city of Gernika (Basque spelling), the spiritual homeland of the Basque people. It has come to symbolise for many the horror and fruitlessness of war and atrocity and has become a tecken of man’s brutality and inhumanity.
A resident of Bridport in Dorset, Gijs van Hensbergen doesn’t claim a strong fa
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van Hensbergen, Gijs 1958-
(Arie van der Lemme)
PERSONAL:
Born July 12, 1958, in Belgium; son of Pieter (a scientist) and Ans (van Hecken) van Hensbergen; married Alexandra Coulter (a hospital administrator), November 30, 1986; children: Hendrikus, Rosa, Hester. Education: Courtauld Institute of Art, London, B.A. (with honors).
ADDRESSES:
Home and office—27 Victoria Grove, Bridport, Dorset BT6 3AD, England. Agent—Curtis Brown Group Ltd., Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Knoedler Gallery, art dealer in London, England, and New York, NY, 1981-84; historian, art critic, filmmaker, and writer.
WRITINGS:
(Under pseudonym Arie van der Lemme) Art Deco, Appletree Press (Belfast, Northern Ireland), 1985.
A Year in Castile, Sinclair Stevenson (London, England), 1992.
Gaudi: A Biography, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
Author of a documentary film script about sculptor Antony Caro.