Gerti Bierenbroodspot

Arsinoe IV Alabaster Sculpture Gold Copper Contemporary In Stock

circa 2000

Gerti Bierenbroodspot is a leading Dutch painter, sculptor, writer and poet. She comes from a family of artists and began to draw in the studio of her uncle, Leo Gestel, an important Dutch modernist. Bierenbroodspot uses archaeological worlds as starting points for her paintings, sculpture and wallrubbings, creating a highly personal vision of a modernity grand in theme as well as in manner. Like the painters of the Golden Age, Bierenbroodspot spends three months every year travelling along the magnificent archaeological trails of the Middle East. She has lived and worked among the ruins of the great Caravan Cities of Petra, Palmyra, and Baalbeck. Her most recent work is inspired by her travels to the Neolithic and neo-Hittite sites of southeastern Anatolie: Arslantepe, Nemrut Dagi, and Yesemek. EDUCATION 1964 Studie aan het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1956 Kunstacademie, Amsterdam SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2011 Morren Galleries, Amsterdam 2011 Slot Zeist, Zeist 2009 Houses of Art, Marbella, Spain 2008 Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO), Leiden, Retrospective 2005 Gallery Helga Hofman, Potsdam, Germany 2002 Gallery Four Walls, Amman, Jordan 1999 Gallery John Pence, San Francisco, USA 1999 National Museum, Beirut, Lebanon ASSIGNMENTS (een selectie) 2007 Amrath Hotel, Amsterdam: mosaic swimming pool floor, painted glass ceiling, china ware, silkscreens 2006 Design of leaded-glass cupola for Amrath Hotel, Haarlem 2002 Egyptian Zodiac, 160-piece set of tableware, design and production supervision (Rosenthal, Weimar) 1986 Facing entrance panels commissioned for Limburg State House, Maastricht