Hans Broek

donated by the artist
courtesy: Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem

Some recent solo exhibitions
Stedelijk Museum, 's Hertogenbosch 2010
Galerie Seomi & Tuus, Seoul 2008
Galerie Newman Popiashvili, New York 2007
Dordrechts Museum, 2004, 'Hans Broek - 10 Years'

Some recent group exhibitions
White Box, New York 2009, 'Towing the Line, 40 Dutch Artists'
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem 2009
Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft 2007, 'Contour/Continuïteit, Heden en Verleden'
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 2005, 'HxBxD = De Rabo Kunst collectie'

Selected publications
Jennie Hirsch, Hugo J. Postma, Hans Broek, Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers 2007
Serge Onnen (ed.), Drawings on geology, Atlanta: J&L Books 2005
Frank Hettig [et al.], Hans Broek: 10 years, Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum 2003
Marente Bloemheuvel, Jaap Guldemond, Twisted: urban and visionary landscapes in contemporary painting, Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum/ Rotterdam: NAi uitgevers 2000

Selected public and corporate collections
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL • Dordrechts Museum, NL • De Pont, Tilburg, NL • Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL • Achmea Kunstcollectie, NL • Arval Art Gallery, Houten, NL • ABN AMRO Kunststichting, NL • De Nederlandsche Bank, NL • Rabo Kunstcollectie, NL • Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, NL • Kunstcollectie umc Utrecht, NL • Peter Stuyvesant collectie, NL • Arcadis kunstcollectie, NL • Kunstcollectie Stichting Océ Kunstbezit, NL • Eneco Kunstcollectie, NL • AMC Kunstcollectie, NL • Kunstcollectie KPN, NL • Caldic Collectie, NL• Lehman Brothers, New York, US

For years Hans Broek meticulously painted the Los Angeles landscape, but in recent years his art has taken a new direction. His latest endeavour relates to a large extent upon yet other traditional genres, that of portraits and history painting. Broek is dedicating himself to studying the oeuvre of Old Masters and emblematic images taken from our contemporary visual culture.  His new approach not only includes references to the visual culture
of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance and the seventeenth century, but also to contemporary popular imagery. His early work (before 1994) was figurative, but with more expressive brushwork and a rougher surface. Between 1995-2005, there was a gradual reduction of formal means. His new work displays a different sensibility akin to a
fin-de-siècle style.

Hans Broek was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1991-1993.
He won the Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije
Schilderkunst (NL) in 1992 and the Uriôt Prize (NL) in 1993.

www.hansbroek.net