Harald Heymans

Harald Axel Heymans (born July 7th 1977 in Den Dungen, the Netherlands) is a Dutch expressionist painter, based in Eindhoven. Heymans’ work primarily explores the compository complexities of the nude, it’s religion, sex, and superstition. His paintings come in many shapes and sizes, both genders and all ages, young and old. It can be as chaste and restrained as a classical marble or as potent and provocative as a full frontal photograph. The varied emotions and broad range of the nude’s functions render his figures by turns a goddess, an innocent, a bather, a prostitute, a seductress, a social provocateur. Through the lingering and indigenously ambivalence about the decorousness of the unclothed and on the other, a joyously frank embrace of the sheer physicality of the nude, there is a great breadth of emotions conveyed in Heymans’ fascination with the female form.

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts

04-2016 – Kunstenaarsbal 2016 Peter Klashorst Gallery for Donker Collective, Stadschouwburg Amsterdam – Live model painting

11-2015 – Loods 18, Hommage to Van Gogh. Collective exhibition

10-2015 – Dutch Design Week 2015, exhibition ‘Mascara’ Spijker Eindhoven

05-2015 – Kunstenaarsbal 2015 Peter Klashorst Gallery for Donker Collective, Stadsshouwburg Amsterdam

05-2014 – Kunstenaarsbal 2014 Peter Klashorst Gallery group exhibition, The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, Tropenmuseum) Amsterdam

05-2014 – Kunstmarkt Nuenen, Van Gogh village (Van Beek Art)

03-2014 – Peter Klashorst Gallerie (Cat Art Show Amsterdam) – Group exhibition