Gijs van hensbergen biography of abraham

(Arie advance guard der Lemme)

PERSONAL:

Born July 12, 1958, in Belgium; son of Pieter (a scientist) and Ans (van Hecken) van Hensbergen; married Alexandra Coulter (a hospital administrator), Nov 30, 1986; children: Hendrikus, Rosa, Hester. Education: Courtauld Institute preceding Art, London, B.A.

(with honors).

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—27 Victoria Grove, Bridport, Dorset BT6 3AD, England. Agent—Curtis Brown Group Ltd., Haymarket Dwelling, 28/29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Knoedler Gallery, art craftsman in London, England, and New-found York, NY, 1981-84; historian, sharp-witted critic, filmmaker, and writer.

WRITINGS:

(Under incognito Arie van der Lemme) Art Deco, Appletree Press (Belfast, Septrional Ireland), 1985.

A Year in Castile, Sinclair Stevenson (London, England), 1992.

Gaudi: A Biography, HarperCollins (New Dynasty, NY), 2001.

Author of a movie film script about sculptor General Caro.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Guernica: Biography forfeit an Icon, for Bloomsbury Promulgating, completion expected in 2004.

SIDELIGHTS:

Gijs machine Hensbergen told CA: "My soft-cover A Year in Castile was a response to my unauthorized passion for cooking, people topmost cookery, and book collecting.

Just about was no convincing record nigh on life behind the stoves reproach cooking in Spain. In 1986 my wife and I not done London, the art world, honourableness world of the art judge and filmmaker, to become ingenious suckling pig chef in say publicly ancient city of Segovia.

"My chief influences as a writer have to one`s name been Richard Cobb (an student of the French Revolution), Perfectly.

S. Pritchett, and the Inhabitant, M. F. K. Fisher. On the other hand I make no claims force to compete with them as writers. I have no doubt lug the authenticity of my turn your back on and my ability to scan the unusual person or suspension. To travel with an environmental mind and to leave partiality at home (for later) addon often than not allows in mint condition experiences to come in.

"My handwriting process whenever possible is cross your mind write from nine to cinque, reread in the early eventide, and throw away most.

Deadlines are also immensely stimulating, chimp are visits from the fringe manager. Inspiration, however, comes deseed the subject. The genius symbolize Antonio Gaudi is hard cling on to ignore or not be seduced by. The overwhelming power look up to Picasso's Guernica demands a lay to rest. My response is to scorn out its life."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Considerable SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

America, May 13, 2002, Jose I.

Badenes, review of Gaudi: A Biography, p. 17.

Booklist, Nov 1, 2001, Spinella Michael, examination of Gaudi, p. 455.

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2001, review divest yourself of Gaudi, p. 1279.

Library Journal, Nov 1, 2001, Jay Schaefer, discussion of Gaudi, p.

90.

Spectator, June 16, 2001, Simon Courtauld, survey of Gaudi, p. 43.