Jan Cremer
Jan Cremer (born April 20, 1940 in Enschede ) is a Dutch writer , painter and graphic artist .
Live and act
painting
Cremer studied briefly at various art schools in the Netherlands, including the art academies in Arnhem and The Hague. There, as in Paris, he took lessons in painting and graphics. In his early work he leaned on the figurative-expressive representation of the artist group CoBrA . He described himself as the founder of the Peinture Barbarisme . Subsequently, his paintings were inspired by Pop Art . During his time in New York he painted tulip pictures for tourists, new works are pastose landscape abstractions.
writing
Already with his debut novel Ik Jan Cremer (published in German in 1969 as Ich Jan Cremer by März-Verlag ), Cremer caused heated controversy in his home country. The book was considered a modern picaresque novel , which tells the experiences of the first-person author during his many journeys and professions with impressive, personal authenticity. Sex and violence occupy an important place in the protagonist's adventures. The openness of the presentation, compared to Henry Miller , was criticized by older, Calvinist readers, but met with approval from the younger generation at home and abroad. The plot is characterized by "[...] a somewhat naive love for animals and a highly developed sense of justice". The novel has been translated into thirty languages.
After these autobiographical bestsellers, Cremer published Made in USA (subtitle: a tough American documentary ), the story of which also dealt with sex for a long time, but no longer reached the pace and tension of its predecessors. “[...] Cremer wants to buy everyone, including magazine readers, including magazine fanatics. And his concessions will soon become unreasonable, and not only for the generation of those who violently attack Nixon and his friends, ”wrote Wolf Wondratschek in SPIEGEL. Cremer ironically paid homage to the American cult of breasts by including fifty-six photos of large breasts in the book, although he counteracted their erotic effect by using rough grids.
In 1984 Jan Cremer's 1500-page novel “De Hunnen” appeared in three volumes: War, Liberation and Peace. Provocative text passages describe the history of Enschede as a gray textile city, dominated by manufacturers.
Jan Cremer Museum
The Jan Cremer Museum in the Roombeek district , which was affected by the explosion of the Enschede fireworks factory in 2000 , is due to open in the Baalengebouw. The architects Bjarn Mastenbroek en Rem Koolhaas designed the renovation plans. Funds of around € 500,000 were used for the renovation.
Books
- Ik Jan Cremer I (1966)
- Ik Jan Cremer II (1968)
- Made in U. $. A. (1969)
- The Late Late Show (1969)
- Oklahoma Motel (1969)
- Logboek (1978)
- De Hunnen (1984)
Web links
- website of the dbnl
- Rein A. Zondergeld: Jan Cremer - Essay , KLfG - Critical lexicon for contemporary foreign language literature, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
- A muscle man in New York . In: Die Zeit of November 28, 1969
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Goedegebuure: Can Cremer , on the website of the dbnk
- ↑ Wolf Wondratschek about Jan Cremer : Made in USA . In: Der Spiegel 4/1979 from January 19, 1970
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.cremermuseum.nl/stingray_dam/pages/cms/ui/viewer.phtml?SiteID=1&PageID=3&ShowBy=blogentryid&ComponentID=802 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.rtvoost.nl/nieuws/default.aspx?nid=152730
- ^ German 1969; again in a reprint from 2004: Erotik-Reader. This anthology contains two other texts: by Catherine de Prémonville and by Esteban Lopez. Area, Erftstadt ISBN 3-89996-029-7 , this ISBN was used for several books because it was a cassette. From Dutch into Dt. trans. by Johannes Piron
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cremer, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch writer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Enschede |