GERTI Bierenbroodspot

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE MONTH, FEBRUARY 2003

By Irene Berger , International Center for the Study of Progressive Neo Cubism

Gerti Bierenbroodspot is a living legend in Holland and a “divine enigma” to art historians, archaeologists and art lovers. She has visited half of the world. Especially the old world, ancient civilizations which are her source of inspiration. She is fond of ancient cultures and civilizations, in particular Greece, the Island of Crete, Pompeii, Al Batra, Jordan, the old Near East, etc. The magnificence of old civilizations is brought to life on her canvases. Where does she find her models? Life is her model. History of human kind is her model because Bierenbroodspot constantly paints around archaeological sites, ruins and old cities and quite often around excavated

old treasures, monuments, plates and statues of vanished civilizations. Gerti herself is an art treasure!

Bierenbroodspot, one of Hollands best known present day painters, whose highly personal mixture of classical and modern art is praised by many European and American art lovers.
Her amazing versality makes it hard to put any label on Bierenbroodspot’s art. She gets the recipes of her paint out of Plinius, her feeling of light, like most of Hollands painters, out of the overwhelming Dutch skies. She is an almost Renaissancistic artist, who not only draws and paints, but sculpts and designs. Like the god Shiva, she creates to destruct. For beauty that flowers and ripens will inevitably grow old and wither in that vast labyrinth of experiences which normal denizens of this world call life, which physicists and gods call Time, and what Bierenbroodspot calls art.

That might very well be the key to Bierenbroodspot’s work, the Majesty of Time and what happens when Time gets its grips on things. On us for instance. This is the homepage of Bierenbroodspot, one of Hollands best known present day painters, whose highly personal mixture of classical and modern art is praised by many European and American art lovers.
Her amazing versality makes it hard to put any label on Bierenbroodspot’s art. She gets the recipes of her paint out of Plinius, her feeling of light, like most of Hollands painters, out of the overwhelming Dutch skies. She is an almost Renaissancistic artist, who not only draws and paints, but sculpts and designs. Like the god Shiva, she creates to destruct. For beauty that flowers and ripens will inevitably grow old and wither in that vast labyrinth of experiences which normal denizens of this world call life, which physicists and gods call Time, and what Bierenbroodspot calls art. That might very well be the key to Bierenbroodspot’s work, the Majesty of Time and what happens when Time gets its grips on things. On us for instance.

De La Croix wrote: “ This outstanding woman and artist is a TRINITY of: 1-Unsurpassed talent that combines the renaissance era and the daring jump into the futuristic vision of unexplored artistic domain; 2- Mesmerizing personality that captivates you, challenges you, dominates you and sends you free to challenge your own destiny; 3-Goddess when she behaves good. Because when she is good, she is good and when she is bad, she is better. You will fall in love with this dangerous Goddess just by listening to her poetry, sailing in the oceans, deserts, jungles and “fantasmagorical”world she planted in her eyes, drifting with power and guilty innocence toward her divine paintings! This woman is majestic!”