{"id":1074,"date":"2018-02-01T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&p=1074"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:55:12","slug":"jaco-kranendonk","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/jaco-kranendonk\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaco Kranendonk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaco Kranendonk (1951 – 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leafing through Jaco Kranendonk\u2019s photo album, his brother Evert talks about earlier days. \u201cWhen we went on holiday we rented canoes and went onto the water, I was fully occupied with the oars, but Jaco sat quietly staring ahead: it wasn\u2019t a canoe, but a bus or tram, maybe it was a ship sailing out of the port with Jaco as captain.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jaco was born in 1951. As a child he grew up in amongst the ships of the Heijplaat harbour, where his father was head of the forge at the RDM (Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij, Rotterdam dry dock company). If a ship glided down the slipway, the whole village came to a standstill and the children were free from school.<\/p>\n

Jaco was very ill as a child, and was not spared a single childhood illness. Until he was 13, his bed was frequently placed in the living room. Between bouts of illness Jaco attended the village primary school which he completed after repeating one year.
\nSubsequently, a three year secondary education course in Pernis was selected, specialising in administration. Despite considerable support from his parents, this was not very successful. Jaco did obtain his typing diploma in this period. It was at this school that his fascination for bus, tram and train originated. Together with two friends he made countless trips by public transport. Jaco played with the hand-outs provided by the RET (Rotterdamse Electrische Tram, Rotterdam Electric Tram, Rotterdam’s public transport company), in which every tram and bus crash and the damage was described, and he is still fully acquainted with the ups and down of the RET. Jaco\u2019s mother was happy that her son had a \u201cnormal\u201d hobby. As it happens, there are apparently quite a lot of people who are under the spell of public transport.<\/p>\n

The family moved to Rhoon and Jaco got a job as office junior in a shipping company where he carried out simple tidying jobs and typing work. After about a year Jaco became quiet and distant. He came home from work far too early, was difficult to approach and very emotional. He was apparently too much of an \u201coutsider\u201d in the company and after two and half years of working there he was made redundant. A difficult time commenced for the family. His father tried to arrange a job for him at the RET, but it was in vain. Finally Jaco ended up at the social work creation scheme, but there were also problems there. Finally, admission to a psychiatric hospital was inevitable. Jaco stayed there from 1973 for three years, where he was treated with behavioural therapy and medication.<\/p>\n

His brother Evert still remembers this time very well. He says: “When we went to the seaside at Rockanje during the holidays, Jaco barely dared to walk on the beach. He was so scared of all the people that he met\u201d.<\/p>\n

The medication that Jaco was treated with, started to be effective, but he will have to take them for the rest of his life. For Jaco, this was the beginning of a life in care institutions. Jaco delivered the internal post for the Pameijer Foundation in various locations in Rotterdam. To do this, he used public transport. The whole day he travelled by tram, metro and bus through the city: finally he had a job which he enjoyed. Rotterdam is a city in development, high buildings were appearing everywhere, new bridges over the River Maas and metro lines were expanding under the ground. At the Pameijer Foundation’s day centre Jaco enjoyed drawing and when in 1991 the Atelier Herenplaats opened, Jaco was one of the first participants. Since then, he draws and paints continuously from the morning till the afternoon, five days a week. Now Jaco is at the Atelier everyday, he is never ill.<\/p>\n

His paintings are populated with a continual stream of cars, buses, trams and metros which worm their way under and above the city’s buildings. The metropolis of Rotterdam offers a gigantic wealth of images which Jaco has stored in his memory. The city in the past and the present merge with each other. You come across the Maas bridge, the Willems bridge and the Erasmus bridge in the same painting. Lumps of paint are ships sailing through the harbour. Every work of art is an area in or around Rotterdam, and the titles indicate the place in question. The dynamics in his work are vast. In a series of etchings, Jaco demonstrates that he can express himself well in this technique too. In the etching \u2018the Stena line\u2019 you feel this artist’s desire to sail into the harbour of Rotterdam as captain.<\/p>\n

Jaco Kranendonk works no longer at Herenplaats since 2009.<\/p>\n

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Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1993\u00a0 Order Parkeerbedrijf Rotterdam<\/p>\n

1993\u00a0 Insita, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n

1995 \u00a0Work of Jaco is permanently exposed in Museum De Stadshof, Zwolle<\/p>\n

1996\u00a0 Gallery Hamer, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

1996\u00a0 Work of Jaco is admitted in the collection Neuve Invention of Collection de l\u2019 Art Brut, Lausanne, Switserland<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 Presentation CD-rom in co-operation with Avantage, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 Admitted in the collection of Museum Charlotte Zander, B\u00f6nnigheim,\u00a0Germany\u00a0(catalogue)<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0 Universal Printshow, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2002\u00a0 Exhibition City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 “Who am I”, Venice, Italy<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 Galerie Atelier Kempro, Sterksel<\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 Outsider Art Stockholm, Gallery INUTI, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 Art Institute, Chicago, USA<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Outsider Art, INUTI, Luna Kulturhus, S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden<\/p>\n

2005 \u00a0“Places”, KCAT, Callan, Ireland<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 The return of The Universal Print Show, Project Ability, Glasgow,\u00a0Scotland<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 “Visions et Cr\u00e9ations dissidentes”, Mus\u00e9e de la Cr\u00e9ation France,\u00a0France<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 “Group Du Jour”, Van der Plas Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 “Who am I II”, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 INUTI, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 Soloexhibition “Van Heyplaat tot 110Morgen”, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “No Name”, Galerie Alte Turnhalle, Bad Durkheim, Germany<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 Exhibition “Buildings”, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Transport”, Kunstwerk Spangen, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 Exhibition in Niki Kurabu, Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Exhibition transport “On wheels and stuff”, Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Outsider Art”, Gallery De Compagnie, Dordrecht<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Going Dutch”,\u00a0Van der Plas Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 Exhibition in Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Slowakije, \u00a0INSITA \u2013 Triennial of Self taught Art<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art der Niederlande”, Kunsthaus Kannen Munster,\u00a0Germany<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0Villa Zebra – Theme: architecture, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0Outsider Kunst Dagen, Haarlem<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art Salon”, Gallary Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0Outsider Art Exhibition, Wijk bij Duurstede<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0Novo, Groningen<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 The 6th annual outsider art in the Hamptons, Gallery BelAge, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 WTC-Schiphol, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0Art Brut Bi\u00ebnnale, Hengelo<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0 Weltensammler, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 Art Kaarisilta, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 Aafje Zorghotel, Sint Fransiscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2018 “Zomergasten” – Dr. Guislain Museum, Gent (Belgium)<\/p>\n

2019\u00a0 ‘After Van Genk’, Outsider Art Galerie, The Hermitage, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

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Collections<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>1995\u00a0 Museum de Stadshof, Zwolle (till 2001)<\/p>\n

1996 \u00a0Muse\u00e9 d’Art Diff\u00e9renci\u00e9, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

1996\u00a0 Neuve Invention Collection de L’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 Charlotte Zander, B\u00f6nnigheim, Germany<\/p>\n

Max E. Ammann Collection, Switzerland<\/p>\n

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Catalogues<\/strong><\/p>\n

1992\u00a0 “Project 12”, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

1995\u00a0 “Van zwart wit naar binnen buiten”, book with art work of Jaco Kranendonk,published by Gallery Atelier Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

1997\u00a0 Het formaat, Museum de Stadshof, Zwolle<\/p>\n

1998\u00a0 “Zonder Omweg 2”, Singer Museum, Laren<\/p>\n

1998\u00a0 “Aubes’98”, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux, France<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 Charlotte Zander, B\u00f6nnigheim, Germany<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 “Meesters uit de marge”, Museum de Stadshof, Zwolle<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 “Connexion Particuli\u00e8re”, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

1999 \u00a0K4 Award, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

1999 \u00a0Salon d’Art Signulier, Granoble, France<\/p>\n

2000\u00a0 “Boats”, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

2002\u00a0 “Folly Drawings”, History about the in-en outsiders in de art by Frits Gronert<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Magazine Out of Art thema “Transport”, article Jaco Kranendonk<\/p>\n

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