I colour in George van Raemdonck's illustrations, because......
My current paintings.
George van Raemdonck illustrated the 1940 edition of the book, ‘Alleen Op De Wereld’. The second book that I was given , as a baby, and which was read to me, more than once, as a bed-time story, when I was (too) young. (My mother, at first, left out the sad parts. But you know what it’s like, by the time I was ready for pre-school (De Zonnebloem = The Sun Flower), I KNEW when she tried to do that.)
My paintings are intended to record how much pleasure I had in growing up with this book, providing a foretaste of being in foreign countries. I associate them with memories of being read to in the attic, where my bedroom was and with searching for the original (Sans Famille) books, beside the River Seine, with my daughter, in 2005.
QUOTE :
“George van Raemdonck is considered by many as the artist who introduced comics to The Netherlands.
The Belgian-born artist had to flee to Holland because of war problems in 1914.
In the same year, he started to draw political gags for magazine De Amsterdammer.
The writer A.M. De Jong was impressed by the work of van Raemdonck and asked him to illustrate a children’s book.
In 1920, Van Raemdonck made the switch from De Amsterdammer to De Notenkraker and until 1936 he kept drawing political gags and covers for this magazine. .......”
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