Hans van Horck

Hans van Horck (born 1952) is a Dutch sculptor, lithographer and painter based in Amersfoort. When Hans van Horck worked for a large printing company as a teenager, his interest in printed art arose. He appears to have a talent for designing posters. To further develop his creativity, Hans moved to Switzerland at the age of eighteen. At that time, graphic and applied design was more developed there than in the Netherlands, which gave Hans van Horck the inspiration for his further development as a contemporary artist. Hans van Horck began his artistic career as a watercolourist, painting portraits and female nudes. Watercolor painting is exchanged for working with (acrylic) paint. With this, large quantities are processed on the canvas, sometimes very pasty, sometimes liquid with a reference to his earlier watercolours. The canvases always lie flat when the artist is working on them. An additional advantage is that he can walk around the canvas and constantly assess the composition from all sides.