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1986 / 2014 BVL04
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Modern Romantics

A fashion photographer who completely rewrote the rules of his trade, he used the city streets as expressive backdrops, which offered an almost casual perspective on cutting-edge fashion designs, and favoured coincidence over carefully crafted poses, Bart van Leeuwen was a master of his profession. His body of work is an intoxicating journey into sensual metropolises like Naples and through fashion capitals such as New York and Paris. The Dutch artist captured the poetic stories of everyday life with cinematographic elegance, drawing inspiration from the contrast-rich style of Film Noir and from Italian neorealism.

Van Leeuwen’s life seems almost too remarkable to capture in just a few words. As a young fashion photographer, he made his way to the epicentres of haute couture; Paris and New York became his home during one of the most legendary eras in the history of fashion and art. The centre of his life was the fabled Chelsea Hotel. Andy Warhol filmed parts of “The Chelsea Girl” there, which enhanced the already mythical nature of the red brick building. Van Leeuwen’s works reflect the atmosphere of these bizarre, brilliant times at “the factory” and the fluctuation between avant-garde and underground. His work was intimately intertwined with his life; the artist’s first wife, Apollonia von Ravenstein, was both his model and his muse. He also photographed his second wife in a seductive pose, one of the rare occasions in which his model looks directly at the viewer. According to Van Leeuwen, “eye contact makes a spectator present in a mise-en-scène. Without it, an observer remains just that, observer of another reality which is actually an ancient principle from the art of painting.” Instead, he used an intensely narrative approach, and the images from his “Modern Romantics” series seem like scenes from a film.

Van Leeuwen’s photographic oeuvre is characterised by chance and spontaneity. Whether shooting Andy Warhol during a workout in the factory or capturing Freddy Mercury, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Grace Jones as they happened to stand opposite him: “I always tried to be open to coincidences, not restricting myself to a pre-defined concept, to find things I wasn’t even looking for but that were actually better than I could have imagined.” The glamorous world of years gone by, captured in Van Leeuwen’s photographs, can be found in the private collections of fashion designers such as Theirry Mugler or Christian Lacroix, as well as in the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh.

The majority of the photographs in this series stems from the late 80s and early 90s. Due to a neuromuscular disease, Van Leeuwen stepped out of the public eye in 2005.

Hannah Hör


Bart van Leeuwen ( Amsterdam,1950 ), born in an artistic family of musicians and painters, published his first pictures in Dutch underground magazine Hitweek in 1967, graduated from the School for Professional Photography in The Hague in 1969 and started to work as a freelance photographer in 1971. Inspired by film noir, Italian neorealism and photographers like Avedon, Brassaï, Frank, Kertész, Lartigue, Newton and Penn he developed a narrative, cinematographic style, linking facts and fiction.

He travelled the world for magazines like Avenue, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Elegance, Esquire, Harpers Bazaar, i-D, Kult, Marie-Claire, Oor, Playboy, Sunday Times, Viva and Wallpaper and companies such as ABN, Agnès B, Barclays, Bilderberg, Bijenkorf, CBS, Harrods, ING, Levi’s, Matinique, Philips, RCA, René Lezard, Sara Lee, Woolmark and Volvo, shooting fashion stories, advertising campaigns and portraits.

Andy Warhol, Bob Geldof, Candy Dulfer, Carice van Houten, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddy Mercury, Giorgio Armani, Grace Jones, Herman Brood, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jerry Hall, John Cale, Nina Hagen and Sylvia Kristel are among the celebrities he photographed.

He has won several awards ( ADCN i.a.) and gave lectures on photography at academies in Amsterdam ( Rietveld ), Rotterdam ( WdKA ) and Bruxelles ( St. Lukas ).
VITA
1950Born in Amsterdam (NL)
1969Royal Academy of Art, The Haugue, Den Haag (NL)
Lived and worked in Amsterdam (NL), Paris (FR), New York (USA), due to a neuromuscular disorder he retired in 2005 and lives outside of Amsterdam (NL)
Died 2017
Exhibitions
2008BlowUp Gallery, Bart van Leeuwen – 40 Years of Fashion, Amsterdam NL
2004BlowUp Gallery, Bart van Leeuwen, Amsterdam NL
2013Foam, Framed in Print, Amsterdam NL
2010DFF Gallery, Zoom, Eyes on Dutch Fashion, The Hague NL
2009BlowUp Gallery, Uppercuts, Amsterdam NL
2008BlowUp Gallery, Dutch Nudes, Amsterdam NL
2007Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Andy Warhol, Amsterdam NL
2006Nederlands Fotomuseum, Avenue A – Z, Rotterdam NL
2004Downtown Gallery, BlowUp Photographers, Amsterdam NL
2003Kunsthal, Playboy Photography, Rotterdam NL
BlowUp Gallery, 11 Photographers, Amsterdam NL
Naarden Photo, 50 Years Nieuwe Revu, Naarden NL
Naarden Photo, Style of Life, Naarden NL
Breda Photo, Breda NL
Christies, Aids Fund, Amsterdam NL
2002VNU, 30 x 30, 30 Years Viva, Amsterdam NL
Downtown Gallery, Pim Thomassen, Amsterdam NL
Scheringa Museum, 50 Years of Fashion, Spanbroek NL
Reflections, Urban Perceptions, Amsterdam NL
2000Historic Museum, Young, Rotterdam NL
Museum of Drenthe, Young, Assen NL
1999Kring, War Child, Amsterdam NL
Scheringa Museum, Fong Leng ‘Diva’, Spanbroek NL
Lumiere, SVFN, Durgerdam NL
1998PanL, Amsterdam NL
Jablonka Gallery, Andy Warhol, Köln DE
Westergasfabriek, PanL, Amsterdam NL
Bijenkorf, Doors to India, Amsterdam NL
1995Naarden Photo, Ego Document, Naarden NL
Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, Paris FR
1994European Photography, Yokohama JP
1993Naarden Photo, Naarden NL
1992St. Lucas Institute, Bruxelles BE
Kleurgamma, Amsterdam NL
1991Naarden Photo, Naarden NL
1990Dunhill Dutch Photography, Amstelveen NL
1989Dunhill Dutch Photography, Arnhem NL
Sonesta Gallery, Avenue, Amsterdam NL
Dunhill Dutch Photography, Assen NL
Naarden Photo, Naarden NL
Focus Gallery, Nudes, Amsterdam NL
1988Dunhill Dutch Photography, Utrecht NL
Dunhill Dutch Photography, St. Petersburg RU
Dunhill Dutch Photography, Moscow RU
Modam, Amsterdam NL
1987Month of Photography, Athens GR
Dunhill Dutch Photography, Amsterdam NL
Dunhill Dutch Photography, Amstelveen NL
Institut Néerlandais, Le Vent du Nord, Paris FR
1986Dunhill Dutch Photography, Lelystad NL
1985Canon Gallery, 20 Years Avenue, Amsterdam NL
Aemstelle, Dunhill Dutch Photography, Amstelveen NL
1984Kodak Gallery, Odijk NL
KLM Gallery, Tokio JP
1983Mazzo, Amsterdam NL
1982KLM Gallery, New York US
1975Gallery Fiolet, Amsterdam NL

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