Background
JCJ Vanderheyden was born on June 3, 1928, in 's-Hertogenbosch city of the Netherlands.
painter Photographer printmaker sculptor
JCJ Vanderheyden was born on June 3, 1928, in 's-Hertogenbosch city of the Netherlands.
JCJ Vanderheyden became a student of the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1946 and had studied there for ten years. Then, he pursued his education at the Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht.
JCJ Vanderheyden began his artistic career when the CoBrA art movement was popular.
The artist’s career can be divided figuratively into three periods. So, from 1964 to 1975, Vanderheyden tried his hand in various media, including computer graphics, sound equipment, photography and printing. At this time, JCJ collaborated with Leon Adriaans and Richard Menken.
At the middle of the 1970s, Vanderheyden continued his artistic experiments and began to produce the replicas of his own artworks as well as of the art by Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel or Velasquez. The copies were presented in the form of installations which the artist took photos of or recorded on the video.
The next decade of Vanderheyden’s professional journey was marked by the presentation of the fragments and parts of his works. Combining his early and present creations, JCJ Vanderheyden tried to express the connection between space and time.
During his artistic career, Vanderheyden presented his artworks at many exhibitions, at Gemeentemuseum (Municipal Museum) Den Haag in 1971, at Van Abbemuseum in 1978 in Eindhoven, at the Documenta of 1982 in Kassel, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 1990 and in 2011.
Despite his career as an artist, JCJ Vanderheyden also transmitted his artistic knowledge to younger generations. So, from 1987 he had held the teacher’s post at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam. He was often invited as a guest lecturer too.
JCJ Vanderheyden was a prolific artist of many fields whose artistic achievements were marked by such prestigious awards as the Order of the Netherlands Lion and David Röell Award.
Nowadays, the artworks by Vanderheyden can be seen at Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, at the Museum van Bommel van Dam in Venlo, at the Noordbrabants Museum of 's-Hertogenbosch and at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam.
Vanderheyden’s artwork called Horizon was bought in 2007 at AAG: Arts & Antiques Group “Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings & Prints” for about seven thousand dollars.
