Armando - Very large giclee on linen: Landschaft

Giclee on linen by Armando. Title: Landschaft. Edition: EA Dimensions work: H87 x W106cm. Dimensions representation: H76 x w99cm. The work is signed at the bottom by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

The work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The period for collection, with advance payment, is very generous, in other words the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and if possible combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be shipped. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Armando, born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd (Amsterdam, 18 September 1929 – Potsdam, 1 July 2018), was a Dutch painter, sculptor, poet, writer, violinist, actor, journalist, film, television and theatre maker. Armando was his official name; his birth name, the pseudonym as he called it, no longer existed for him. He saw his work as a 'Gesamtkunstwerk', for which his experiences from the Second World War in the area around Camp Amersfoort formed the basis.

Biography

Armando spent his youth in Amersfoort. Later he studied art history for a number of years. As a visual artist he was part of the Dutch Informal Group founded by Jan Henderikse in 1958 (including Kees van Bohemen, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven), which merged into the Dutch Nul movement in 1960. The members of the Nul group brought a completely new, astonishing vision of familiar things into their work. A typical example: Armando created The Black Water, a basin made of black plastic, filled with a few centimetres 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 nuances in this 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, theatre, television, music (as a violinist in the gypsy orchestra of Tata Mirando) 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 theatre version - absurd, slowly progressing scenes from a life with master-servant relationships.
Anton de Goede talks about Armando, Credits: Jeroen van Kan
From 1979 he lived alternately in Amstelveen and Berlin for over 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 22 October 2007 this museum was completely destroyed by a major fire, whereby almost the entire collection and part of the documentation archive were lost. Part of the saved 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 21 March 2014.
In 2013 his poetry collection Stemmen was published. In November 2015, 21 new poems were published by Uitgeverij Koppernik under the title Waarom.
In 2017 he performed with Ik horen dat er Luister werd, accompanied by the Ukrainian accordionist and bandoneonist Oleg Lysenko, in which he recited from his own work. In 2019, a year after his death, Cherry Duyns paid tribute to Armando with the same program.
Armando died on 1 July 2018 in the German city of Potsdam. Following his death, Museum Voorlinden has brought forward a retrospective exhibition planned for 2019. This was to be part of his ninetieth birthday. The exhibition was on display until 5 May 2019.
The artwork Der Bogen, designed by him, in the public space of Amstelveen, is the largest artwork he ever made for public space.