Hendrik de Vries
Hendrik de Vries (born August 17, 1896 in Groningen , † November 18, 1989 in Haren ) was a Dutch poet and graphic artist .
Life
His ancestors were farmers in the province of Groningen, his father Wobbe de Vries (1870-1943) high school teacher (and Dutch linguist) in Groningen. His education was mainly self-taught and wanted to become a visual artist despite the opposition of his parents. Among other things, because he wanted to be considerate of his mother (who was manically depressed), he also took on a subordinate position at the municipal archive in Groningen. His first volume of poetry was published in 1920 (De nacht) and in the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of the leading Dutch poets.
De Vries was influenced by surrealism and Spanish poetry (he used the Copla poem form) and also wrote poetry in Spanish. From 1924 to 1936 he went on vacation to Spain every year, where he was particularly inspired by Roma dance and music and bullfighting. He was anti-civil. The subconscious played a big role in his poems. Because of the themes he chose and because he was also a visual artist, he has also been compared to Alfred Kubin . Even in his painting (initially expressionist pictures of farms and landscapes in darker colors than most other De Ploeg artists) he was influenced by Kubin and Francisco de Goya and their dream fantasies ( magical realism ).
After the death of his parents in 1946, he married Riek van der Zee, who was four years his junior, and moved to Haren. At the same time he retired early in 1947 at the municipal archive in Groningen. He published as an art critic and poet in various newspapers and also tried to sell his pictures. Although he regularly took part in exhibitions within the De Ploeg group, he was considered a loner and resigned in 1972.
De Vries published poems in the literary magazine Het Getij, founded in 1916, in Forum, De Gids and other magazines. One of his poems (Een schatrijke tuin, A rich garden) is one of the wall-mounted poems in Leiden .
In 1946 he was the first recipient of the Hendrik de Vries Prize of Groningen for writers, which he named in his honor, and the Hendrik de Vries Scholarship has existed there since 1986. In 1962 he received the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his complete works , the Culture Prize of the Province of Groningen in 1959 and the PC Hooft Prize in 1973 .
He also drew and painted and was a member of the artist group De Ploeg.
A bust of Norman Burkett stands in front of the Martinikerk (Groningen) , near which was the municipal archive in which he worked.
Fonts
- 1917 - Het gat in Mars en het Milagrat
- 1920 - De Nacht
- 1920 - Vlamrood
- 1923 - Lofzangen (hymns of praise)
- 1928 - Silenen
- 1931 - Spaansche folk songs
- 1932 - Stormfakkels
- 1935 - Copla's
- 1937 - Atlantic ballads
- 1937 - Geïmproviseerd bouquet
- 1937 - Nergal
- 1939 - Romantic rhapsody
- 1944 - Robijnen
- 1946 - Capricho's en rijmkritieken
- 1946 - Toovertuin (magic garden ; awarded the Lucy B. en CW van der Hoogtprijs in 1948 )
- 1951 - Distels en aloë's
- 1955 - Gitaarfantasieën
- 1958 - Groninger symphony
- 1965 - Iberia, krans van reisherinneringen
- 1966 - Diseño jondo (with drawings from Spain)
- 1971 - Cantos extraviados
- 1971 - Goyescos
- 1978 - impulses
- 1992 - Verzamelde poems (Collected Poems), Amsterdam 1992
- 1996 - Sprookjes
literature
- Jan van der Vegt: Hendrik de Vries. Biography , Amsterdam 2006
- Jan van der Vegt: Verbeelde vechten. Hendrik de Vries as a sign from het stierengevecht. Ploeg Jaarboek 2007, Groningen 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Assmann u. a. Hendrik de Vries 1896−1989 - the Dutch Kubin. That seen in the waking dream , exhibition in the Alfred Kubin House, Zwickledt 1997
- ↑ Exhibition in the Groninger Museum 2006 on de Vries ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . There was also an exhibition in Groningen in 1996, exhibition catalog: Hendrik de Vries, 1896 - 1989. 'The secret is kept secret
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vries, Hendrik de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch poet and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1989 |
| Place of death | Haren |