Geer van Velde
Gerardus "Geer" van Velde (5 April 1898, Lisse – 5 March 1977, Cachan, Paris) was a Dutch painter.
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- Name
- Geer van Velde
- Birth Name
- Gerardus van Velde
- Born
- 5 April 1898
- Birthplace
- Lisse, Netherlands
- Died
- 5 March 1977
- Place of death
- Cachan, France
- Field
- Painter
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson · watercolorist · muralist
- Languages
- French
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Gerardus "Geer" van Velde (5 April 1898, Lisse – 5 March 1977, Cachan, Paris) was a Dutch painter.
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• Name — Geer van Velde • Birth Name — Gerardus van Velde • Born — 5 April 1898 • Birthplace — Lisse, Netherlands • Died — 5 March 1977 • Place of death — Cachan, France • Field — Painter
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Van Velde was the second son of Willem Adriaan van Velde, then owner of a small case of inland waterway transport fuelwood and charcoal on the Rhine and Hendrika Catharina von der Voorst, illegitimate daughter of an earl. Catharina and her four children (Neeltje, Bram, Geer, and Jacoba) were abandoned by Willem Adriaan after the bankruptcy of his business, leaving them in misery. Moving frequently, they eventually settled in The Hague in 1903. In 1910, at the age of twelve, Geer became an apprentice designer in the firm with Schaijk & Eduard H. Kramers. Kramers encouraged Geer and his brother Bram van Velde to develop their interest in painting and funded both to a certain degree. The brothers moved to Paris; their experience of the 1925 Arts Décoratifs exhibition had motivated the move. Geer rented his own studio in 1926. He had a close relationship to writer Samuel Beckett; their common friend, art patron Peggy Guggenheim, suggested it was a homoerotic relationship. Beckett bought some of van Velde's paintings and wrote about them.
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Germain Viatte: Geer Van Velde. Cahiers d’Art, 1989.
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- 1.« Gerardus van Velde, né le à sept heures et demie du matin, fils de Willem van Velde, ouvrier, et de Hendrika Catharina van der Voorst, sans profession. Acte dressé en présence de Jakob Cornelis Zanevelt, trente ans, fonctionnaire municipal, et d'Eduardus Jozephus Waltraven, trente-huit ans, garde-champêtre. » Acte de naissance de la mairie de Lisse. Reproduit dans Grand pavois, par Karl Schippers dans Geer van Velde, Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1989
- 2.Source: Germain Viatte dans Geer van Velde, voir bibliographie.
- 3.Le registre de l'état civil mentionne comme premier enfant une fille, Neeltje, qui est aussi connue sous le prénom de Cornelia. Si, aux Pays-Bas, Corrie, Cor ou Neeltje sont des apocoristiques courants du prénom officiel Cornelia, par contre Neeltje est très rare comme prénom officiel
- 4.Né Abraham Gerardus
- 5.Geer van Velde, 1898 - 1977, Shilderijen en tekeningen, par Kees Broos, catalogue de l'exposition au musée municipal de la Haye, décembre 1981
- 6.Jacoba se souvient l'avoir visité. Dans Geer van Velde, par Germain Viatte, op.cit.
- 7.The Panorama phenomenon, Mesdag panorama, catalogue de l'exposition de 1981 à la Haye
- 8.Un siècle d'écrivains, par Bernard Rapp, FR3, octobre 1996
- 9.Confessions of an Art Addict, par Peggy Guggenheim, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1960
- 10.À noter: l'œuvre de Mondrian est alors encore pratiquement inconnue en France
- 11.Norbert et Jeanne Pierlot, potiers, ont ouvert leurs portes dès les années 50 à de nombreuses expositions contemporaines, des concerts et stages durant la saison d’été au château de Ratilly.
- 12.Texte de Piet Moget dans Geer van Velde, par Germain Viatte, op.cit.
- 13.Reproduit dans le catalogue De Boer, Amsterdam, 1981
- 14.1925-1930, Musée d'art moderne du Centre Pompidou, Paris
- 15.Texte de Abraham Marie Hammacher dans Geer van Velde, par Germain Viatte, op.cit.
- 16.Voir, pour cette époque, l'ensemble des gouaches présentes au Musée d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- 17.une très belle Étude de cette œuvre est au Musée d'art Moderne du Centre Pompidou, à Paris
- 18.Texte de Gaëtan Picon dans Geer van Velde, par Germain Viatte, op. cit.
- 19.Daté de 1950, ce dessin se trouve aujourd'hui au Musée national d'art moderne de Paris
- 20.Musée national d'art moderne de Paris, Centre Pompidou.
- 21.Texte de Charles Estienne dans Geer van Velde, par Germain Viatte, op.cit.
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