Q.S. Serafijn
Illustration — Portret van Q.S. 2010 • Illustration — The D-Tower in Doetinchem, 2012 Robert Hack (19 February 1960 – 1 June 2024), known professionally as Q. Serafijn, was a Dutch conceptual artist and author, who worked as sculptor, photographer, and installation artist.
Also recorded as Robert Hack · Lambertus Gerardus Anna Hack
Q.S. Serafijn
Marcel Douwe Dekker (Photo of photo by unknown photographer) · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Full name
- Robert Hack.
- Born
- 1960. · Roosendaal en Nispen.
- Died
- 2024. · Rotterdam.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- sculptor, photographer, writer, illustrator, artist and opinion journalist.
- Fields
- comic and illustration.
- Languages
- English.
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Life and work
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is comic and illustration. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tilburg, Haarlem and Rotterdam. Employment is recorded with Willem de Kooning Academy. Work by Q.S. Serafijn is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Rotterdam is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Born in Roosendaal en Nispen, Serafijn attended the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming (now Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) in Tilburg from 1978 to 1983 and the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem from 1983 to 1986. After graduation he settled as an independent artist in Rotterdam in 1991. He was also lecturer of visual arts and art theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie from 1991 to 1993, visual arts at the Willem de Kooning Academie from 1993 to 1999 and visual arts and art theory at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie since 2007. In 1992 Q.S. Serafijn received the Charlotte Köhler Award, an incentive prize of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. For the city center of Doetinchem Q.S. Serafijn and the Dutch architect Lars Spuybroek designed the so-called D-tower, a large, interactive sculpture connected to a website that surveys the emotional lives of the inhabitants. In 2010 Q.S. Serafijn and sculptor Gijs Assmann (born 1966) released the equestrian statue, entitled John Wayne, in the Wateringse Veld, a new district of Den Haag. Serafijn died in Rotterdam on 1 June 2024, at the age of 64.
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Q.S. Serafijn lived from 19 February 1960 to 1 June 2024 and was an artist and publicist. The birth of Q.S. Serafijn is recorded on 19 February 1960 in Roosendaal, and the death on 1 June 2024 in Rotterdam.
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Life and career
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1960
Q.S. Serafijn born at Roosendaal en Nispen.
2024
Q.S. Serafijn died at Rotterdam.
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Roosendaal en Nispen.
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Rotterdam.
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Selected publications
• Lily Van Ginneken, Jaap Guldemond, Q.S. Serafijn (1990), Panorama. • Q.S. Serafijn (2003). Museum als pretpark!: aantekening 0437. • Q.S. Serafijn (2007), Het Czaar Peter Dossier. • Q.S. Serafijn, Jasper Henderson (2010), Het wonder van Wateringse Veld. • Q.S. Serafijn, Rudolf Gerard Abel Kaulingfreks, Jasper Henderson (2012), Q. S. Serafijn, notes 3.
![Portret van Q.S. Serafijn, c. 2010. Dit is een foto uit 2024 van een foto uit c. 2010 afgebeeld op een display in het Wateringsveld [1] op een druilerige dag, waarbij net een regenbui was begonnen. Enige druppels hadden het display al deels bevochtigd en andere druppels waren net gevallen, beide op dit beeld vastgelegd. Deze opname was genomen op 16 juni 2024, twee weken na het overlijden van Q.S.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/2010_Portret_van_Q.S._Serafijn.jpg/800px-2010_Portret_van_Q.S._Serafijn.jpg)
Portret van Q.S. Serafijn, c. 2010. Dit is een foto uit 2024 van een foto uit c. 2010 afgebeeld op een display in het Wateringsveld [1] op een druilerige dag, waarbij net een regenbui was begonnen. Enige druppels hadden het display al deels bevochtigd en andere druppels waren net gevallen, beide op dit beeld vastgelegd. Deze opname was genomen op 16 juni 2024, twee weken na het overlijden van Q.S.
Marcel Douwe Dekker (Photo of photo by unknown photographer) · This image has been extracted from another file
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- 1.S Serafijn; STREEKROMAN Doorsneden Landschap at kunstenlab.nl, 2015.
- 2.Q.S. Serafijn; male / Netherlandish; sculptor, photographer, installation artist at rkd.nl, 2015.
- 3.Q.S. Serafijn, linkedin profile, 2015
- 4.D-tower site, 2015.
- 5.John Wayne; Gijs Assmann en Q.S. Serafijn, 2010 at www.vanderkrogt.net
- 6.Serafijn 1960-2024
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