Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (born October 8, 1925 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian artist. He works as a painter , draftsman, collage and relief artist , as a sculptor and graphic artist . Paul Van Hoeydonck is the first artist to design an object for the Earth's moon . He lives in Antwerp.
life and work
In 1941 Van Hoeydonck attended evening courses in drawing at the Antwerp Academy. He worked for a while in the drawing studio of Jos Hendrickx (1906–1971). He later studied at the Art History Institute in Antwerp and at the Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde in Brussels . He went his way as an artist but in principle as an autodidact .
He had his first solo exhibition in Antwerp in 1952. In the following years he lived and worked alternately in Belgium and the USA . In 1964 Van Hoeydonck was a participant in documenta III in Kassel with some relief works made of lacquered wood.
In 1971 Paul Van Hoeydonck was commissioned to create a work of art for the next Apollo 15 mission to the moon .
The artwork Fallen Astronaut consists of a statuette of a spaceman (about 84 mm tall) and an aluminum plaque on which the names of the (eight) American astronauts and (six) Soviet cosmonauts who died in accidents up to 1971 are listed. The Fallen Astronaut was placed at the landing site on the moon near the Hadley Apennines by the two American Apollo 15 astronauts David Randolph Scott and James Benson Irwin . The metal plate was set up and the small sculpture - the " Fallen Astronaut" - placed next to it.
Paul Van Hoeydonck's works are part of important collections and museums in Europe and America.
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog for documenta III (1964) in Kassel : documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Industrial design, graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
- Van Hoeydonck, Paul / Bussche, Willy: Paul Van Hoeydonck ; Brussels 1982
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Van Hoeydonck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Paul Van Hoeydonck in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Hoeydonck, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoeydonk, Paul Van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |