Gerard Hordijk, costume design

Watercolour, signed lower right. 'Clothing design for Holland Opera'. Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Dimensions including frame: 40 cm x 32.5 cm. Fitted with so-called Museum glass.

Gerard Hordijk 1899-1958 Studied architecture in Delft and simultaneously at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. From 1925 to 1935 he lived and worked in Paris, then in Amsterdam until 1940. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War he left for New York. In 1947 he returned to Amsterdam where he died in 1958. In Paris he was Piet Mondriaan's downstairs neighbor. The two painters became good friends. Unlike Mondriaan, Hordijk was a versatile artist. In addition to paintings and watercolors he made commissioned murals and successfully designed the stage and ballet sets for the Holland Festival. In October 2017, a major retrospective of his oeuvre was on display at Museum Flehite in Amersfoort.