movement death_date death_place birth_place training nationality field birth_date article_title name bgcolour
vrije aan schilderkunst -lrb- bollocks to painting , 1963 -rrb- expressieven -lrb- free expressive , 1950s -rrb- schijt 1991 france strijp , eindhoven , netherlands self-taught , tilburg art academy dutch art 18 december 1932 johan lennarts
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johan lennarts

johan lennarts -lrb- 1932 -- 1991-10-06 -rrb- was a dutch artist .
johan lennarts was born on 18 december 1932 in strijp , eindhoven , the youngest one of a family with five children .
he used to paint as a child and even won the consolation prize in a contest for the school , but later on he gave up the art creation .
lennarts survived the second world war and in 1945 he attended the beekvliet seminary in sint michielsgestel to become a monk .
in 1948 he attended the joris college in eindhoven and four years later he started to draw again during his final year at the hbs -lrb- former dutch high school -rrb- , receiving already in 1959 a grant from the french government .
although he enrolled first at the royal academy of the arts in den bosch and after a short period of time he transferred to the art academy in tillburg he can be considered a self-taught artist .
the artist specialised in sculpture , glass-painting and canvas ' painting , and his favourite subjects were portraits , animals and flowers .
unlike his subjects , the styles and the painting techniques have changed along the years .
lennarts started working under the influence of cobra , joining efforts with the artist association and later art centre `` vrije expressieven '' -lrb- `` free expressive '' -rrb- in the 1956 .
in a decade later he constituted the anarchical collective `` schijt aan schilderkunst '' -lrb- `` bollocks to painting '' , sas -rrb- .
it was by the exhibition titled after the sas that lennarts led the world see his fascination for the green colour , even producing his own `` lennartsgreen '' .
after the american pop art he created collages , panels and polyptichs while he was also engaged with social projects .
in 1970 another exhibition took place : `` tot lering en vermaak '' -lrb- `` to education and enjoyment '' , van abbemuseum -rrb- in order to bring art closer to people and make it more understandable .
johan lennarts , ad snijders and lukas smits organized the show and according to their conclusion that artists should be involved in planning the living environment , they decorated the exhibiting space as a private house .
the `` second lennarts '' was born in the 1970s , when the artist presented cheerful landscapes executed in a calligraphic manner to the public .
this period was marked by the artist 's philosophic readings of ludwig wittgenstein and martin heidegger and the questions that he posed to himself .
empty places populate the paintings of this second phase : polder landscapes , empty park stations , empty trains , parks and house interiors .
his intellectual interests were also put down into words in a vast written corpus .
lennarts wrote poems , theatre plays and novels being prized by the city of eindhoven incentive contest for his texts in raam -lrb- 1967 -rrb- and by the same city for his novel `` koekoeksklok in utopia '' -lrb- `` a cuckoo clock in utopia '' , 1985 -rrb- .
his work has been on display in the netherlands , belgium , france , surinam and several art works belong to the contemporary art collections of both the stedelijk museum in amsterdam and stedelijk van abbemuseum in eindhoven .
the artist belonged to the association bbk amsterdam -lrb- 1969 -- 1981 -rrb- and arti et amicitiae -lrb- 1981 -- 1991 -rrb- .
lennarts lived in eindhoven until 1969 , then in griendtsveen -lrb- 1976 -- 1983 -rrb- , amsterdam -lrb- 1983 -- 1987 -rrb- , and finally in france where he died in 1991 .
`` i believe that lennarts depicted the human condition in the form of ` fleeting moments ' -lrb- ... -rrb- lennart 's ` snapshots ' of the human condition constitute a special representation of one of the great themes of mankind . ''
