Catalogue information

LastDodo number
3928999
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
Het vieze plaatje
Technique
Year
1975
Print run
10
Publisher
Dimensions
41 x 26,5
Printing office
Details

Aat Veldhoen (Amsterdam, November 1, 1934) is a Dutch painter. Veldhoen grew up in Amsterdam and learned the tricks of the trade as an artist from his father, who was first an advertising painter and later a painter. Veldhoen started his career as a draftsman but soon established his name as a free artist. His love for drawing is clearly reflected in his work: detailed drawings and paintings of dune landscapes, self-portraits, but especially naked women and making love are part of his oeuvre. He learned a lot as an intern at the Binnengasthuis, where he drew patients and operations. He bought his first etching press from the royal grant for free painting that he received three years in a row. With this he wanted to fulfill his ideology to make art for the people, folk graphics had to become the works made. He started drawing directly on offset plates, to then print the "rotaprints". On a cargo bike with his prints in it, he drove through Amsterdam between 1964 and 1967, where he sold the graphics. The cargo bike was inaugurated by Simon Carmiggelt. On the occasion of Veldhoen's seventieth birthday (2004), the Rembrandt House Museum exhibited a large collection of his work as a free artist and draftsman. These works were exhibited for the first time in a gallery in Animaux gallery Rotterdam from 26 March 2006. For this occasion, a silkscreen was made of the work 'In Love', a self-portrait of Veldhoen with his old love Cristi Kluivers, which he gave as a present to his new love and wife Hedy d'Ancona. The artist David Veldhoen is his son. This is a print from 1975. "The dirty picture" by Aat Veldhoen in which he depicted the most prominent dignitaries of that time in a downright pornographic attitude was intended for the magazine De Niew Linie. In the end, the student magazine Propria Cures dared to do it and published it. Rare, the original print has a stamp of the date of sale set by field fowl and an original round stamp of Aat Velthoen. Without this stamp, there is a good chance that it is a copy.

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