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Rob Scholte
Kingdom of the Netherlands, b. 1958
Rob Scholte is a Kingdom of the Netherlands Neo Expressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum. Rob Scholte was born in Amsterdam.
Rob Scholte (born 1 June 1958) is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history.
He lives and works in Den Helder. His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), Groninger Museum (2002); Fries Museum (2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988); Documenta, Kassel (1987), São Paulo Art Biennial (1985), Venice Biennale (1990). In 1994 Scholte lost both his legs when a bomb exploded under his car. In 1995 a molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of his house in Tenerife.
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