Aat (Arie) Veldhoen (1934-2018) - Portret van een meisje

Arie Johannes Veldhoen was born in Amsterdam on November 1, 1934. His artistic talent revealed itself at an early age. His father was a painter. He made drawing and painting materials available to his son, but did not actively interfere with his artistic development. At the age of just 14, Veldhoen was admitted to the Rijksnormaalschool in Amsterdam. He received a thorough education in which a lot of attention was paid to subjects such as perspective, composition, anatomy and portrait drawing. After four years he left the training prematurely and left for Scandinavia, where he stayed for several months. Back in Amsterdam he established himself as an independent artist.

Veldhoen quickly made a name for himself as an etcher, a technique he taught himself. Although Veldhoen introduced new subjects into etching, such as his series with women in labour and victims of street accidents, it is mainly the frank, uncompromising execution and the accurate and very personal way of drawing that appeal to the imagination. Due to its themes and undisguised realism, Veldhoen’s work is closely linked to the emancipation and liberation of the individual from the oppressive straitjacket of church, state and narrow-minded bourgeois morality in the 1960s.

Veldhoen received recognition as a painter early on. In 1955 he was awarded the Royal Subsidy for Painting, a cash prize that he would also receive in 1957. Veldhoen focused from the very beginning on depicting visible reality and, with the exception of a few isolated experiments, has always remained faithful to figuration. His work exhibits a unique variety of themes, but of all the subjects he painted, the woman was dearest to him. The candid way in which Veldhoen portrayed his subjects led to conflicts and legal proceedings on several occasions.

The art of Aatje Veldhoen is alive! It is both intimate and bold, profound and witty and shows a keen eye for the human condition. Veldhoen’s prints, paintings, sculptures and photographs have found their way into the collections of leading Dutch museums and are shown in prominent exhibitions throughout The Netherlands.






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