Daan van Golden

Daniel (Daan) van Golden (born February 4, 1936 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ; † January 9, 2017 in Schiedam ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist .

life and work

After attending a technical school, Daan van Golden studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences, specialized in painting and took lessons in graphic techniques. He also worked as a window designer for De Bijenkorf , a chain of exclusive department stores. He stayed in Japan from 1963 to 1965 and continued to travel extensively, with long stays in Morocco , India , Indonesia, and North and South America. His travels found their expression in his artistic work.

Van Golden's early works were of an abstract-expressionist character. In 1963, while in Japan, he made a radical stylistic change, creating a series of meticulous, very detailed depictions of textile and paper patterns. The artistic use of industrial and commercial products revealed the influence of Pop Art during this period. He also used motifs by Jackson Pollock , from which he enlarged details.

In 1968 van Golden was invited to the 4th documenta in Kassel , where he combined existing and new images into an installation. He repeated this concept at subsequent exhibitions. Two large solo exhibitions of Daan van Golden's work were held, one in 1982 in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum (Daan van Golden 1963–1982) , the other in 1991 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (Daan van Golden - Werken-Works 1962–1991) . Van Golden was one of the artists in the Dutch pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and a participant in the 7th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon in 2003.

Awards

2004: AH Heineken Prize for Art

literature

Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968
Kimpel, Harald / Stengel, Karin: documenta IV 1968 International Exhibition - A Photographic Reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive); Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9

Individual evidence

↑ Bianca Stierter: Pop art artist Daan van Golden overleden . NRC Online , January 10, 2017, accessed January 10, 2017 (Dutch).

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personal data
SURNAME	Golden, Daan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Golden, Daniel van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 2017
Place of death	Schiedam

[1] Bianca Stierter: Pop art artist Daan van Golden overleden . NRC Online , January 10, 2017, accessed January 10, 2017 (Dutch).