{"id":1083,"date":"2018-02-01T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&p=1083"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:08:28","slug":"paulus-de-groot","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/paulus-de-groot\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulus de Groot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paulus de Groot (1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paulus de Groot, born with \u201cDown Syndrome\u201d, grew up in the art circle of the seventies, wanted to become an artist, like his father, Karel de Groot. He (Karel) \u00a0painted his themes in a headstrong and bold way from an academic background. Always in a figurative style, mostly wet on wet in the watercolour technique. When Karel at the end of his life, he had an incurable illness, looked back at his work and life, he told, he had experienced his most beautiful moments in the countryside. Such as the moment when he saw a stork hovering on turbulence, his outstretched \u201cfingers\u201d feeling the air, he described poetically. After his death, his son started a career as an artist at Studio Herenplaats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paulus mainly paints his own inner-world, a world which is often restless and can be read as a diary. The events and experiences of Paulus are being reproduced in colour and shape. The death of the cat, the loss of \u201cDaddy Karel\u201d, the discovery of sexuality, the search for limits. The homosexuals, making love with enormous pimols, are painted with bright expressive colours, the nose is mostly placed between the eyes, breasts and navel do not differ in size. He looks for the extreme in horror movies, from the videotheque. He translated these movies in his expressive work. Vampires with blood on their teeth or scary monsters and zombies populate his paintings. A drawing of four aroused homosexuals looks very complicated. All lines are mixed up and you can see that Paulus also loses track in the tangle of lines when filling in the colours. In the drawing \u201cNude homo and crocodile\u201d, he combines sex and horour in a remarkably original way (crocodile bites in pimol). When I asked him why he is always choosing these themes, he tells me that colours mean something to him. Light yellow and light red, stand for aids and scary diseases. Dark red is the colour of the planet of passion and has to do with love and sex. All colours of the rainbow are for the homosexuals in the sauna. Black clouds instead of white, black is the colour of gloom.<\/p>\n

Besides his bizarre themes, that look sweet and innocent as for expressive language, Paulus is also painting portraits of people in his environment, often family members, Karel, Toos or his sister Anna Maria. But you can also find some of my colleques in his work. A beautiful work is \u201cThe gate of the swan\u201d, for Mommy Toos.<\/p>\n

Anna Maria de Groot is Paulus\u2019 sister and has, just like her brother, the urge to express creatively. She attended the same art academy as her father. Anna Maria expresses, just like Paulus, her personal vision or reflection on man and humanity, life, the world, this time. Her work is a visual diary, the process of expressive experiences and impressions, she gains in her contacts with people. Her style of working is also figurative just like her father and brother. With Paulus you can see a different expression due to his handicap, but in essence he also wants to handle the figurative style. You can also see that Paulus, like Anna Maria, is occupied with the inner world, in which the most personal and intimidate plays an important part. The painting “Nude with pimol on the back”, is almost abstract, we see how Paulus, like his father is turning into a poet.<\/p>\n

Paulus has stopped working at Atelier Herenplaats, but is still connected to the collective.\u00a0 Paulus is working independently on other locations. His work, supported by Atelier Herenplaats materials, is still included in exhibitions by Atelier Herenplaats.<\/p>\n

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

1995\u00a0\u00a0Project Caleidoscope, Cirque des Varietes,\u00a0Li\u00e8ge, Belgium
\n1995\u00a0 KunstRai’95, Amsterdam
\n1995\u00a0 Centre d’Art Differencie, Luik, Belgium
\n1996\u00a0\u00a0“Holland Tunnel” @ Gallery Wares for Art,\u00a0New York, USA
\n1996\u00a0\u00a0Otsu Museum of History, Shiga, Japan
\n1996\u00a0\u00a0Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
\n1996\u00a0\u00a0“Portraits of God” @ Gallery Wares for Art,\u00a0New York, USA
\n1997\u00a0 Karel de Groot Foundation, Rotterdam
\n1997\u00a0 World Trade Center, Rotterdam
\n1998\u00a0\u00a0“Zonder Omweg 2″, Singer Museum, Laren
\n1998\u00a0\u00a0Museum of Visionary Art, Baltimore, USA
\n1998\u00a0\u00a0Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, USA
\n1999\u00a0\u00a0l’Ancien Mus\u00e9e de Peinture, Grenoble, France
\n1999\u00a0 Project Ability Universal Printshow ’99,\u00a0Glasgow, Scotland
\n1999\u00a0\u00a0”Les Indians”, Musee d’Art Differencie, Li\u00e8ge,\u00a0Belgium
\n1999\u00a0 Mus\u00e9e d’\u00c1rt Modern, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium
\n2000\u00a0\u00a0“Self portraits”, Museum for New Art, P\u00e4rnu,\u00a0Estonia
\n2000\u00a0\u00a0Mad-Attack, Musee d’Art Differencie, Li\u00e8ge,\u00a0Belgium
\n2003\u00a0 Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA.
\n2003\u00a0\u00a0“Variaties in Vlees” (variations in meat),\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam
\n2003\u00a0\u00a0Nocobra, pandPaulus, Schiedam
\n2003\u00a0\u00a0“Ferme jongens, stoere knapen”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam
\n2003\u00a0\u00a0Musee d’Art Differencie, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium
\n2004\u00a0\u00a0“Gewaagt”, Leiden
\n2005\u00a0\u00a0Exhibition Karel de Groot Foundation,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2006\u00a0\u00a0“Who Am I”, graphic exhibition\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam
\n2006\u00a0\u00a0Jubilee exhibition “15 years Herenplaats”,Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2006\u00a0\u00a0INUTI, Stockholm, Sweden
\n2007\u00a0\u00a0“No Name”, Galerie Alte Turnhalle,\u00a0Bad Durkheim, Germany
\n2007\u00a0\u00a0“Who Am I # 3”, Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2007\u00a0\u00a0“Outsiderart of the Herenplaats”\u00a0GAIA museum, Randers, Denmark
\n2007\u00a0\u00a0INTUIT Fair in Chicago, USA
\n2008\u00a0\u00a0Outsider Art Fair, New York, USA
\n2008\u00a0\u00a0“Stendhal syndroom, art that makes you\u00a0grazy”, Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2008\u00a0\u00a0Exhibition in Niki Kurabu, Tokyo, Japan
\n2008\u00a0\u00a0“Desdedentro \/ frominside”\u00a0\u00a0“Espacio Jovellanos\u00a0en\u00a0El Helvedero,\u00a0Gijon, Spain
\n2009\u00a0\u00a0Exhibition Karel de Groot Foundation\u00a0“3 x de Groot” (3 times de Groot), Rotterdam
\n2009\u00a0\u00a0GAIA museum, Randers, Denemarken\u00a0“The art of sex,\u00a0love and eroticism”
\n2009\u00a0\u00a0Arts Project Australia, Melbourne Australia\u00a0“Revealing the human”
\n2010\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art Salon”, Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2011\u00a0\u00a0“Paulus de Groot gaat solo”\u00a0(Paulus de Groot goes solo),\u00a0recent\u00a0acrylpaintings,\u00a0Gallery\u00a0Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam
\n2011\u00a0 Kunstroute, Hoek van Holland
\n2011\u00a0 “Continuuum: Gender Identities”, Ridgefield,\u00a0USA
\n2011\u00a0 Outsider Art Exhibition, Wijk bij Duurstede
\n2011\u00a0 Novo, Groningen
\n2011\u00a0\u00a0“Museum of Everything 4”, Londen, U.K.
\n2011\u00a0\u00a0WTC- Schiphol, Amsterdam
\n2012\u00a0 Gallery 23, Giessen, Germany
\n2013\u00a0 “Face to Face”, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam
\n2013\u00a0 La Brut, Rotterdam
\n2014\u00a0 exposition “Connect” Copenhagen, Denmark
\n2018 “Zomergasten” – Dr. Guislain Museum, Gent (Belgium)
\n2018 Mural Spaanse Polder by Painture Collective, Rotterdam
\n2019 Chez Freddy, Haarlem
\n2019 Vout-O-Reenee’s, London<\/p>\n

Museum collections<\/strong>
\nMusee d’Art Differencie, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium
\nSTOARC Collection of the University of Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n

Catalogues<\/strong>
\n1996\u00a0 Kunst als Medicijn, Academic Hospital, Leiden
\n1998\u00a0 “Zonder Omweg 2”, Singer Museum, Laren
\n1998\u00a0 \u00c4nglar, Stockholm, Sweden
\n1999\u00a0 Connexions Particuli\u00e8res, Musee d’Art Modern, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium
\n1999\u00a0 Salon d’Art Signulier, Granoble, France
\n2008\u00a0 Book “Stendhal syndroom,\u00a0art that makes you grazy”,\u00a0history 15 years Herenplaats<\/p>\n

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Award<\/strong><\/p>\n

3rd prize Grafiek Anders (graphic Show)<\/p>\n

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Order<\/strong>
\nIn the project beautiful people\u00a0www.beautifulpeople.nl<\/a>
\nimages by Paulus de Groot have been used for a unique coffee set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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