Rob Scholte (born 1 June 1958) is a Dutch

contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

ist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the

Gerrit Rietveld Academie The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History The Instituut voor Kuns ...

, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in

Den Helder Den Helder () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Den Helder occupies the northernmost point of the North Holland peninsula. It is home to the country's main naval base. From here the Royal TESO fe ...

. His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005),

Groninger Museum The Groninger Museum () is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The museum exhibits modern and contemporary art of local, national, and international artists. The museum opened in 1874. The current post-modernist building c ...

(2002);

Fries Museum The Fries Museum (Frisian Museum) is a museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. It has won the Global Fine Art Award which is sometimes nicknamed the Museum-Oscar. History (1881–2012) The museum was founded on 13 April 1881 by the "''Provincial Fries ...

(2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995),

Sprengel Museum Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake () approximately south of the state m ...

, Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991),

Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

, Amsterdam (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988);

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, Kassel (1987),

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(1985),

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(1990). In 1994 Scholte lost both his legs when a bomb exploded under his car. In 1995 a

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was thrown through the window of his house in

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.Anthony Haden-Guest, ''True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World'' (pp236), Atlantic Monthly Press (1998)

Selected work

* ''Olympia'' (1988): a copy of Manet's '' Olympia'' which replaces the naked woman with a wooden puppet. * ''Après Nous le Deluge'' (1995): a mural inside the replica of the

Huis ten Bosch Huis ten Bosch (, ; ) is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. Huis ten Bosch was th ...

at the Dutch-themed amusement park in

Sasebo, Nagasaki is a Core cities of Japan, core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is the second-largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. , the city had an estimated population of 230,873 in 102,670 households, and a populat ...

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. * ''Blue period'' (2004): familiar logos, images or objects in blue and white and mounted in classical, golden frames. * ''The Embroidery Show'' (2005): existing pieces of embroidery hung back to front on the wall. There was an exhibition of these pieces in

Museum de Fundatie Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...

(Zwolle, Netherlands) from April to September 2016.

Selected bibliography

* ''How to Star''. Cat.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

, Rotterdam (1988). * ''All the portraits are up to date''. Cat. Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (1988). * ''6 Dutch Artists''. Cat. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1989). * ''Energieën''. Cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990). * ''Rob Scholte''. Cat. Art Random, Kyoto (1990). * ''7 Year Itch''. Cat. Kunstverein, Hannover (1991). * ''Après nous le déluge''. Cat. Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1992). * ''Nether Art''. Cat. Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993). * ''The Living Room''. Cat. Kunstverein Grafschaft, Bentheim (1995). * ''As far as Japan''. Cat. NBKS, Breda (1996). * ''Plug-Ins''. Cat. Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2000).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scholte, Rob 1958 births Living people 21st-century Dutch male artists Dutch contemporary artists Artists from Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Dutch embroiderers 20th-century Dutch male artists

Selected work

Selected bibliography

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