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Henk Schiffmacher (1952) - Dutch Tulips
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Groningen, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since October 2025 • 9 sales
Product description
Schiffmacher (Harderwijk, 1952) comes from a Catholic family of butchers in Harderwijk. From a young age, he had a fondness for drawing and collecting. He had little interest in school. He wanted to become a painter. His first sketches and drawings found their way into the homes and bedrooms of uncles and aunts, and Schiffmacher won annual drawing competitions. His artistic ambition led to a brief period at the REX Advertising School on Frederiksplein in Amsterdam in the early 1970s.
In the mid-1970s, he held many jobs, such as screen printer, window dresser, typographer, and reportage photographer for Nieuwe Revu. In 2000, he was given a retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle. Henk Schiffmacher holds many exhibitions and collaborates on exhibitions in museums, such as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
Schiffmacher is very active in the field of tattoos and collected all kinds of items related to the history of tattooing during his travels.
Henk calls painting an unprecedented luxury, as it allows him not to take the tastes of others into account. His origins as the king of tattoos can often be found in his paintings: the colored images are outlined by thick black lines.
He has tattooed the following people, among others: the members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the members of Pearl Jam, Kurt Cobain, Barry Hay, Willy DeVille, Herman Brood and Xandra Jansen, Anouk, Robbie Williams, and Lady Gaga. On November 5, 2011, the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum opened, the largest tattoo museum in the world, dedicated to the mother of all arts: the tattoo. At its foundation lies the unique collection that Schiffmacher has assembled over more than thirty years. The collection consists of hundreds of tattoo machines and hand tools, countless photographs, flash (tattoo examples), paintings, drawings, sculptures, and even pieces of tattooed skin.
Type of work: Screen print
Signature: Print-signed
Framed: Yes
Size: 41 x 41 cm (h x w)
Incl. frame: 60 x 60 cm (h x w)
Condition: In excellent condition
Publisher: Henk Schiffmacher Artmarketing.nl
Specifications
ConditionVery goodColorsPurple, OrangeMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationSquareArt sizeMediumHeight60 cmWidth60 cm
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About this seller
Groningen, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since October 2025 • 9 sales