Rob Scholte - Screen print, Peace of Münster

Well-known work by this great Dutch artist. Screen print on BFK Rives paper, signed and dated in pencil (1998). In excellent condition. Origin: Rob Scholte Museum. Dimensions: 90cm x 64cm (top), 80cm x 58cm (image incl. signature)
Screen print by Rob Scholte. "Peace of Munster" (2000) Rob Scholte does not want to be an artist who makes deeply felt, strong personal expressions in the isolation of his studio. In his view, art must convey a message. His art has the visual power of the billboard along the highway. She is directly appealing, but is the opposite of superficial. His art is layered by personal interpretation, humor, intelligence and expertise. And although his paintings give the impression as if they arose spontaneously, nothing could be further from the truth. Rob Scholte (Amsterdam, 1958) Scholte lived in Castricum, Doorn, Heiloo and Egmond aan den Hoef. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He then became part of the artist collective W139, where he made his debut with Sandra Derks in 1982 with the 'masterpiece' Rom 87, a series of free-style variations on a book of children's coloring pages. He will replace this style with meticulously painted works that he begins to exhibit in 1984 in The Living Room. Scholte's works were shown at the Documenta in 1987 and in 1990 he was allowed to decorate the Dutch pavilion of the Venice Biennale. In 1986 he caused a stir with a painted postcard, Utopia (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen). Pointed out that this was a quote from Manet's Olympia, Scholte responded with a painting on which the newspaper article with this criticism and image was allegedly copied; a literal quote from half a newspaper page. With How to Star, a solo exhibition at Boijmans Van Beuningen, paintings from 1983-1988, Scholte received both praise and criticism. In 1991 he met the model, also soap and film star, Micky Hoogendijk. She became director of his BV and on May 31, 1994 they married in the RoXY house temple. In 1993, Scholte became a teacher at the Kassel Art Academy, a job he would quit in 1999. In 1991, Rob Scholte BV was commissioned for a 1200 square meter wall and ceiling painting at the Huis Ten Bosch Resort in Nagasaki, Japan. Scholte worked with a large number of assistants on the painting entitled Après nous le déluge, about the constant recurrence of war in history. Its opening was to take place on August 9, 1995, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but had to be postponed due to an attack on Scholte. Scholte is an image maker. He organizes and places images - from the mass media, from his own extensive archive - in a new context, thereby providing those images with new meaning. One often finds contradictions and contradictions in his works that are 'overcome' in their new context. His meticulously painted works are usually produced by assistants and signed by himself. In doing so he follows a 17th century method of working. His working method is illustrative of postmodernism and emphasizes the permanent influx of images that surround, shape and mold us. The media is always thematic, he draws inspiration from it, criticizes its manipulation and also acts as a 'media personality'.