Maurice Heerdink

Maurice Heerdink (12 August 1955, The Hague) is a Dutch painter known mostly for his subtle painted photo-realistic male nude art.

Contents

• The book the art of maurice heerdink
• The playful eroticism of maurice heerdink speelse erotiek 1997
• References

In 1981 Heerdink graduated from the Royal Art Academy in The Hague in the Netherlands. After extensive travels through North- and Middle America he drew a series about the iconography of the Mayaculture.

Between 1976 and 1997 he painted several works of Mathilde Willink , the ex-wife of Carel Willink that were show in The Uur van de Wolf in de documentary Mathilde Willink Superpoes, 2005.

From 1989 till 2000 he illustrated over 100 books and magazines and had 11 short stories published.

During the 90s Maurice Heerdink developed into a modern Caravaggist, and drama and lightning became elementary in his paintings. Heerdink focused on the mythology from Greece and the bible. He created a series about Saint Sebastian, Acteon, Sisyphus, Prometheus and the flagellation of Christ. In 1999 he received the public award first prize for his painting The Return Of The New Messiah during the exhibition The Jesus Mystery. The documentary The Playful Eroticism of Maurice Heerdink was shown on MVS Gay TV Amsterdam in 1998.

Between 2004 en 2005 he portrayed theatre legends like als Ellen Vogel, Jenny Arean, Willem Nijholt, Johnny Kraaijkamp jr. and Aus Greidanus jr. These works were a part of his 2005 exhibition in the Westfries Museum, that was opened by actrice Sacha Bulthuis.

In November 2014 the book The Art Of Maurice Heerdink was published.

Works of Maurice Heerdink can be found in private art collections in Europe and the States and museums.