page_title: Willem de Ridder
hierarchical_section_title: Willem de Ridder
caption_attribution_description: English: Willem de Ridder 9 januari 1968
context_page_description: Willem de Ridder is a Dutch anarchist and artist, known as a founder of Fluxus. He was the foremost Fluxus member in the Netherlands. He showed and sold Fluxus works in his gallery, Amstel 47, and shops Fluxshop and European Mail-Order Warehouse. He organized Dutch Fluxus festivals with Wim T. Schippers in 1963 and 1964.
  de Ridder's Amsterdam club, Provadya, was a center for the city's counterculture.
  He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Den Bosch. After finishing his studies, he decided to stop painting.
  He was part of the Sexual Egalitarian and Libertarian Fraternity, a group that edited Suck: The First European Sex Paper and organized the first international erotic film festival, the Wet Dream Festival. He later influenced Annie Sprinkle.
context_section_description: Willem de Ridder (born 1939) is a Dutch anarchist and artist, known as a founder of Fluxus. He was the foremost Fluxus member in the Netherlands. He showed and sold Fluxus works in his gallery, Amstel 47, and shops Fluxshop and European Mail-Order Warehouse. He organized Dutch Fluxus festivals with Wim T. Schippers in 1963 and 1964. 
  de Ridder's Amsterdam club, Provadya, was a center for the city's counterculture.
  He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Den Bosch. After finishing his studies, he decided to stop painting.
  He was part of the Sexual Egalitarian and Libertarian Fraternity (SELF), a group that edited Suck: The First European Sex Paper and organized the first international erotic film festival, the Wet Dream Festival. He later influenced Annie Sprinkle.
caption: January 9, 1968
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