Hansdegroot

Enthusiasm alive

Enthusiastic about making music.

Dancing to it

Moving it on

Reflect the image

of something that really appeals to me.

I see that image

I enjoy that people do this

perhaps on simple sounds

maybe not very difficult

but with a lot of enthusiasm

to enjoy it visibly

enjoying it

yes and that makes me happy

GROWING UP IN ART

I have never regretted this and still love art in all its variety. Still, you can go down anywhere. The apex of any art form clearly shows this. So rather enjoy it as a gift that you can experience and with which we can even come to deeper communication insights. And especially when we learn to combine the different forms of art with each other.

An example of a well-known Dutch writing artist can no longer be ignored in the Netherlands. Her name was Annie M G Schmidt and she wrote not only children's stories, but also stories for adults. She did this as the daughter of a minister and knew perfectly how to address the abuses of the religion in which she had grown up. A son had also become known in the Netherlands, who was also the son of a pastor who became a very famous cabaret artist in the Netherlands. He also manages to raise a lot of abuses to this day. On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 10 p.m. he can be seen again on NPO 2 and his name is Freek de Jonge.

Here the 3 brothers de Groot next to each other eating a sweet lollipop. From left to right Carlo, Hans (me) and Peter. The three of us once had to return to the police station because we had taken a boat that was not really ours. But we had really heard from the gardener that we were allowed to have the boat. (... and I had really heard that myself.) Anyway we have had many adventures with it and the boat was even hijacked by another group of children.

Hi, my name is Hans

And while you're here,
Would you also like to know who I am?
I am (as of April 10, 2024) a 66 year old man and am pictured above.

Man expresses himself through examples he takes in

...and have examples

a connection with 4 forms of art

And who is that  man below?

No that is not me. But that is the great example of the Dutch theater and that man called Louis Bouwmeester.

And coincidentally, I still live in Louis Bouwmeestraat
and I love

• the essence of good theater,
• of music or the essence of sound
• of dance or that which will be the art of movement
• and of course the visual arts. And yes, I didn't just make that my profession.
  So I am a visual artist.

But why does a person actually make art?

Here some old photos of Hans:

I had to have this photo taken for a final exam catalog of the art academy. I had a really nice school and I was allowed to do all things that I really liked and then you suddenly have to be classified in a box. What are you actually Hans? And if I answered that honestly then I would be: Painter, photographer, graphic artist, filmmaker, illustrator and decor maker, but mainly a researcher. And then I said after it, or just call it mixed media, that seems good to me. But that was not allowed. Oh? I thought? Why not? In the end, they wanted to turn it into a graphic designer, because my photos apparently appealed to the person who wanted to fill it in. Probably because it was a photographer himself. So the assignment was to bring something that was appropriate for your profession. Well and then I made a box. I thought that was appropriate: A box in a box.

Initially I always enjoyed working with children. But when I was 18 I also looked for work in photography. I worked as a sports photographer or model photographer and worked in a photo shop in the old center of Leeuwarden

(Photo Technika)

Here I then ran the entire shop on my own and made passport photos for customers. My parents then came along again with my younger brother and sister. And I made this black and white picture with an old polaroid camera. I often had a very good relationship with my family. Unfortunately, when my mother and younger brother died in a car accident in 1985, much changed.

Photography, drawing, painting, dancing and theater are the biggest hobbies

At the age of 19 I came into contact with different forms of dance, music, image and drama and after taking a drama course I was asked if I wanted to do the light and sound for 2 mimes in the North of the country to learn people of what their movement game MIME meant. I gladly invited the 2 mimes to my parents, because they were also very involved with many forms of art. In a conversation between my father (a musician with a symphony orchestra) and the famous mime artist Gerard Verwer (student of the most famous Dutch pantomime artist Rob van Reijn) that they talked about LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, the first very long black and white film that was Gerard and my father had really made an overwhelming impression. It was not until many years later that I discovered the film and was also very impressed by it. I was born to do something with art, although I did not know then what I wanted to become. Did I continue with drama, music, dance or the visual arts?

Express with image

But I had also developed a very great love for images. People told beautiful stories with images. Cartoons that still fascinate me to this day

IN THE END I WANTED TO COMBINE DIFFERENT ART FORMS IN A FOUNDATION.

In 2006, together with Hannah from the Philippines and other stakeholders, I founded the Bando foundation, using the following statement:

FIND THE FIRE AND LET IT BURNING VERY WELL