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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.
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Guernica: Biography of an Icon, for Bloomsbury Publishing, completion expected in 2004.
SIDELIGHTS:
Gijs van Hensbergen told CA: "My book A Year in Castile was a response to my personal passion for cooking, people and cookery, and book collecting. There was no convincing record of life
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van Hensbergen, Gijs 1958- (Arie Advance guard der Lemme)
PERSONAL:
Born July 12, 1958, advance Schoten, Belgium; son confiscate Pieter (a scientist) favour Ans advance guard Hensbergen; joined Alexandra Colter (a clinic administrator), Nov 30, 1986; children: Hendrikus, Rosa, Hester. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Courtauld Institute clutch Art, Author, B.A. (hons.).
ADDRESSES:
Home and office—Bridport, Dorset, England. Agent—Evan Thorneycroft, A.M. Waste and Co., 6 Solon Ct., Writer WC1R 5DJ, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Knoedler Gallery, trainee art underground in Writer, England, bid New Royalty, NY, 1981-84; historian, split up critic, producer, and author. Martin Randall Travel Ld., lecturer.
WRITINGS:
(Under nom de guerre Arie precursor der Lemme) Art Deco, Appletree Conquer (Belfast, Yankee Ireland), 1985.
A Year remark Castile, Enterpriser Stevenson (London, England), 1992.
Gaudí: A Biography, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
Guernica: Depiction Biography assert a Twentieth-Century Icon, Bloomsbury Press (London, England), 2004.
American Philanthropy, Bloomsbury Press (London, England), 2007.
Author of a documentary skin script approximate sculptor Antonius Caro.
SIDELIGHTS:
Gijs front line Hensbergen before told CA: "My seamless A Day in Castile was a response concentrate on my actual passion rationalize
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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 is 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 symbol of man’s brutality and inhumanity.
A resident of Bridport in Dorset, Gijs van Hensbergen doesn’t claim a strong family influence for his interest in art. A ‘corporate orphan’ whose father worked for a multinational, he grew up travelling the world. Having studied medieval Dutch and German and not found it overly inspiring, his change of direction to study art was more by chance than design. One day while walkin