Free, expressive and uncompromising
Peter Klashorst was a Dutch painter, sculptor and photographer, born in 1957 in Santpoort and died in 2024 in Amsterdam. He became known for his colourful figurative art, expressive brushstroke and constant fascination with the human figure.
Klashorst graduated with aude from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1981. He received the Buning-Brongers Prize and the Royal Subsidy for Free Painting. In 1987, he was one of the initiators of the artist collective After Nature.
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ABOUT PETER KLASHORST
Portraits, self-portraits, nudes, animals and scenes from everyday life are important topics within the extensive oeuvre of Peter Klashorst. He not only captured the appearance, but above all the character, emotion and vulnerability of his models.
Klashorst travelled a lot and worked for a long time in New York, Africa and Southeast Asia, among others. The people, cultures and urban environments he met there were a constant source of inspiration for his art.
STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
Peter Klashorst worked with oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, ink, photography and mixed techniques. Coarse brushstrokes, thick layers of paint, drippers, fast lines and visible corrections often remained part of the final artwork.
His oeuvre moves between figuration, neo-expressionism and free abstraction. Within After Nature, Klashorst returned to painting to the observation. The starting point was simple: a lot of painting and capturing what really stands in front of you.
INTERNATIONAL CAREER
In the 1980s and 1990s, Klashorst was active in the art world of Amsterdam and New York. His work was exhibited at home and abroad and he grew into one of the most striking representatives of Dutch figurative painting.
Later he lived and worked for a long time in Senegal, Gambia, Kenya, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. In Cambodia, he made a gripping series of portraits of victims of the Khmer Rouge. His international life gave his oeuvre a direct, personal and sometimes confrontational expressiveness.
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Peter Klashorst was a Dutch painter, sculptor and photographer, born in 1957 in Santpoort and died in 2024 in Amsterdam. He became known for his colourful figurative art, expressive brushwork and uncompromising way of working. Klashorst graduated with aude at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
After Nature was an artist collective of which Peter Klashorst was one of the initiators in 1987. The artists returned to painting to perception and opposed theoretical and predominantly abstract art. Their motto was: a lot of painting and capturing what you really see.
Peter Klashorst painted portraits, self-portraits, nudes, animals, landscapes and scenes from everyday life, among other things. During his travels and stays in Africa and Southeast Asia, he recorded the people and environments he met there. Character, emotion and human vulnerability are central.
The work of Peter Klashorst moves between figurative art, neo-expressionism and free abstraction. He worked with oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, ink, photography and mixed techniques. Coarse brushstrokes, thick layers of paint, drippers and visible corrections give his art a raw and direct appearance.
Available artworks by Peter Klashorst can be viewed online and purchased via OPUS Art Gallery. You can view the works in Utrecht every Friday from 14:00 to 19:00 or make an appointment on another day. Let us know in advance which work of art you would like to see so that we can prepare it for your visit.