Dutch Photographers since 1938

Horst, Henk van der

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Henk van der Horst's career as a photographer lasted only five years, from 1936 to 1941. His oeuvre shows a young photographer putting the ideas of New Photography into practice. Van der Horst became acquainted with those ideas in the classes given more... »

Henk van der Horst's career as a photographer lasted only five years, from 1936 to 1941. His oeuvre shows a young photographer putting the ideas of New Photography into practice. Van der Horst became acquainted with those ideas in the classes given by such eminent teachers as Gerrit Kiljan, Paul Schuitema and Paul Guermonprez at the art academy in The Hague.
Henk van der Horst's reportages were published in magazines and show a picture of life in The Hague in the 1930s. He also took portrait photos, a genre that probably interested him less; his portraits are really studies in the effect of light-and-dark contrasts.
Immediately after Germans invaded the Netherlands, Henk van der Horst joined a communist resistance group. It was probably for reasons of security that he left no record of this period; the German occupation features only indirectly in his work.
On August 5 1941 he was caught and interned successively in Scheveningen, Amersfoort, Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen. In the last of these camps he died of exhaustion in 1942. « less...

Place/date of birth

Den Haag 1912-08-22 

Place/date of death

1942-11-26 

Nationality

Nederlands 

Discipline

fotograaf 

Subject

portretfotografie, reportagefotografie, autonome fotografie
 

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fotomontages  

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bromidedruk 

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2011-10-26 (RZ) 

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Den Haag
Hongarije
 

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