page_title: Menno Veldhuis
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Menno Veldhuis / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: "Woods No. 21", mixed technique on wood
context_page_description: Menno Veldhuis is a Dutch artist.
context_section_description: Born in Groenlo and grown up in Eibergen (Netherlands). From 1994 until 1999 he studied painting with Marie van Leeuwen, Paul van Dijk and Eli Content at the High-school of Arts Constantijn Huygens in Kampen (now ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Zwolle). From 2000 until 2001 he studied history of art at the Utrecht University. From 1999 to 2003 he lives and works alternately in Arnhem, Velp und Bussum. From 2004 he lives and works in Potsdam (Germany). 2008–2012 membership of Verein Berliner Künstler.
  After an abstract series of 15 large oil paintings, titled "Machines" (2011– 2013), the artist finds in his next work "Ernte 1" ("Harvest 1", 2013) a more formal content and produces a series of Van Gogh-paintings.
  In 2013 Menno Veldhuis turns also to photography and creates a series of around 150 selfies „Back to Nature“, in which he shows his tendency to self-mockery.
  In 2014 the artist create a series of collages „Woods“, using remains of paper, which he originally used as paint palette for his canvases.
caption: Woods No. 4 (2014) by Menno Veldhuis
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