Peter Klashorst - framed acrylic portrait of lady on Thai newspaper on board - 2004

Portrait of Peter Klashorst from his better period when time and attention was still spent on his work. Year: 2004. Technique: acrylic on newspaper pasted on board. Image dimensions: H42 x w28 cm. The work is signed at the top: Peter Klashorst, Bangkok, 12-04. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned.


When purchased, the work can be collected in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague)
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for the
pick up, with advance payment, is very spacious, i.e. the buyer can do the work for weeks or even
months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the
above cities or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Peter Klashorst, actually Peter van de Klashorst (Santpoort, 11 February 1957) is a Dutch painter, photographer and musician. From 1976 to 1981 he attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Here he met the brothers Maarten and Rogier van der Ploeg and together they founded the new wave band Interior, in which Klashorst plays bass guitar. In 1981 Interior mutated into Soviet Sex, still with the Van der Ploeg brothers. During this time the three were also active in the pirate television channel PKP TV (Ploeg/Klashorst/Ploeg), which they founded. During the 1980s Klashorst was considered one of the Nieuwe Wilden. His exuberant paintings were awarded the Royal Subsidy for Painting in 1983.
In 1987, after conversations on Tenerife with the Czech artist Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Klashorst started the Amsterdam-based artist collective After Nature, which opposed the prevailing abstract expressionism. Their joint performances on the street, in nature and during art manifestations were well-known and notorious. In 1995, the After Nature group disbanded again. In the meantime, this group had also founded the Amsterdam Institute for Painting (AIS), where they organised open painting workshops. In 1997, Klashorst also took part in the reunion of the band Soviet Sex and released the album Hotel Winston. That year, Teleac also broadcast the series Schilderen met Acryl on television, in which Klashorst, in one of the episodes, stands behind the easel in a manner characteristic of him, with his trousers around his ankles and his lower body exposed.
Klashorst regularly surprised the art public with a new painting style, but also regularly made the national news with his licentious lifestyle. He painted and photographed many ladies in Africa. In 2000, he ended up in a police cell in the predominantly Islamic Senegal. He was suspected of inciting debauchery and making obscene images because he had painted local women naked. By bribing officials, he managed to buy his bail and quietly escape the country via Gambia. Later, he regularly stayed in Nairobi, Mombasa (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand).
In 2003 King Klashorst was published, an authorized biography by Robert Vuijsje. In 2006 he made headlines with the founding of the 'artists' party Huisje-boompje-beestje', which won 787 votes (0.3%) in the municipal elections in Amsterdam that year.
Early 2011, an exhibition took place in the Tuol Sleng Museum in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Klashorst painted the victims of the Khmer Rouge period, portraits that he then sprayed on. The project was supported by UNESCO.
In 2011 his autobiography Kunstkannibaal was published, the publication of which was accompanied by a lot of media attention. In December 2011 Klashorst exhibited his Cambodian portrait series in the Amsterdam gallery Naleye, supplemented with recent work.
In January 2014 it was announced that Klashorst was suffering from AIDS.[