Peter Klashorst Explained

Peter Klashorst
Birth Name:	Peter van de Klashorst
Birth Date:	11 February 1957
Birth Place:	Santpoort, Netherlands
Death Place:	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alma Mater:	Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Peter Klashorst (born Peter van de Klashorst, pronounced as /nl/; 11 February 195711 September 2024) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.

Biography

Klashorst was based in the Tabakspanden on the Spuistraat in Amsterdam,^[1] although he also produced works in cities such as Bangkok, Mombasa, and Phnom Penh.

In 2011 he did one of his last self organised shows at the Tuol Sleng, S21 the former Khmer Rouge prison (Cambodia), in honour of the victims of the Khmer Rouge’s terror and genocide that took place from 1975 to 1979 in Cambodia. Klashorst created an impressive and sometimes very confronting set of around 50 paintings. The show got world wide attention (The New York Times and Herald Tribune).^[2]

Klashorst died of lymphoma in Amsterdam, on 11 September 2024, at the age of 67; at the time of his death he had been suffering from HIV for several years.^[3]

Prizes

• 1982 Johan en Titia Buning-Brongers Prize
• 1983 Royal Prize for Free Painting (Netherlands)

Bibliography

• Steef Davidson, red., Peter Klashorst, tekeningen: Poëzie explosie : 23-5, 30-5, 6-6 1979, Amsterdam, 1979
• Peter Klashorst; samenst. Timo van der Eng, Theo van der Hoeven; red.: Marleen Buddemeijer: Schilderen met acryl, Utrecht, 1997,
• Mieke Rijnders, Geurt Imanse: Over schilderkunst; Pieter Holstein, René Daniels, Peter Klashorst, 1983.
• Paul Groot et al.: After nature, Amsterdam, 1989, catalogus uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de tentoonstellingen van Bart Domburg, Jurriaan van Hall en Peter Klashorst in de galerieën Jurka, Hans Gieles en Torch te Amsterdam.
• Robert Vuijsje: King Klashorst, Amsterdam, 2005,
• Peter Klashorst: Castles in the Air, Bangkok, 2010,
• Peter Klashorst: Kunstkannibaal, 2012,

External links

• Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.

Notes and References

1. News: Leeuwen . Rob van . Een kleine geschiedenis van de Tabakspanden aan de Spuistraat . 16 October 2019 . Het Parool . 25 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190806214946/https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/een-kleine-geschiedenis-van-de-tabakspanden-aan-de-spuistraat~ba6b0185/ . 6 August 2019 . nl-NL . In de panden woonden door de jaren heen niet alleen krakers. Zo huurde kunstenaar Peter Klashorst er een woonruimte en heeft hij er zijn galerie Cash & Carry zitten..
2. Web site: The Walking Dead. 23 April 2011. International Herald Tribune. The New York Times.
3. Web site: 11 September 2024 . Kunstenaar Peter Klashorst (67) overleden Cultuur Telegraaf.nl . 11 September 2024 . Telegraaf . nl.