BIO
BIOGRAPHY​
The Dutch painter Michaël Winkel was born in Dordrecht in 1956. His parents were the artists Antoon Winkel (1923 - 1989) and Maria Hendriks (1923 - 1913). It quickly became clear that Michaël Winkel had a great drawing talent. The drawings that he made as a toddler, and later as a teenager, show that he has enormous imagination and a capacity to depict this in a narrative way.
Characteristic of his early work are monstrous characters and prehistoric animals that seem to have stepped out of the work of Hieronymous Bosch. Michael Winkel has experimented with a variety of materials. His early pen drawings were fabulously detailed. Later he started working with a brush and the lines became coarser. Both his paintings and graphic work became more stylized.
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Michaël Winkels' paintings and drawings are representations of an extremely strange, imaginative world, in which the absurd is combined with bits of reality and dream. There is a compelling force. The eye is drawn to the smallest details. Each work tells not one, but several stories. They are spiritual interpretations of an inner world that is constantly looking for something to hold on to, for processing experiences.
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Life has not been easy for Michael Winkel. He has been confronted with death around him several times; experiences that can be read in his work. Yet it is usually not a bleak death that Winkel brings. Sometimes a bit humorous, usually as part of a larger whole in which life eventually conquers. This victory is clearly reflected in the sex-related themes in his work.
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Michael Winkel was not an exuberant talker but had an indomitable work ethic. From his hand comes a huge stream of paintings and drawings in which he unmistakably depicts his state of mind. His talent to translate his inner world into powerful images (sometimes combined with intriguing titles) makes viewing his work a fascinating experience.
In 2012, Michaël Winkel died at the age of 56.
1966
The drawings that he made as a toddler, and later as a teenager, show that he has enormous imagination and a capacity to depict this in a narrative way.
1974
A un diner d'athets / Qu'est-ce qui rend triste?
At an athletics dinner / What makes you sad?
1974
Theatrum Metallicum
At an athletics dinner / What makes you sad?
1979
Soothing Labia Majora poison for those who did not succeed
1990
Portraits made by the artist:
Father Antoon Winkel, mother Maria Hendriks, sister Raphaël en girlfriend Liesbeth
BIOGRAPHY​
1956 Born in Dordrecht, Netherlands
1975 Education at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1976 - 1979 Education at Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam
1979 Graduation ‘cum laude’ at Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam
Exhibitions
1985 - Gallery Witt, Dordrecht
- Concert en Congresgebouw De Doelen Rotterdam
1986 - Koepelkerk Amsterdam
- Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
1987 - Lineart ’87, Gent, Belgium
- Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
- Gallery Witt, Dordrecht
- Gallery Peters, Geleen
1988 - Gallery Witt, Dordrecht
- Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
1989 - PMW Gallery, Stamford, USA
1990 - Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
1991 - Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
- Gallery Interart, Heeswijk Dinther
1992 - Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
- Gallery Witt, Dordrecht
1993 - Schlosz Mainau, Insel-Mainau, Germany
- Gallery Magenta, Nijmegen
- Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
- Gallery Westersingel, Rotterdam
1994 - Kunsthal. ‘Gallery ’94’, Rotterdam
- Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
1995 - Kunsthal. ‘Gallery ’95’, Rotterdam
- Zwolsche Algemeene, Nieuwegein
- Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
1996 - Ary Scheffer Award
- Gallery Maas Rotterdam
- Wallpainting Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
- ‘Rotterdam on line’, group exhibition
- ‘Chambre d’amis’ Dordrecht, group exhibition
- Illustration collection of poems in cooperation with Ton Delamarre
1999 - Gallery De Drie Stromen, Zwijndrecht
2000 - Gallery Maas, Rotterdam
2001 - Pictura Dordrecht
- Gallery ‘Vers van de Pers, Dordrecht
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