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Willem de Ridder

Willem de Ridder

Dutch artist and anarchist

Willem de Ridder (14 October 1939[3] – 29 December 2022) was a Dutch anarchist[4] and artist, known as a founder of Fluxus.[5] He was the foremost Fluxus member in the Netherlands. He showed and sold Fluxus works in his gallery, Amstel 47, and shops Fluxshop and European Mail-Order Warehouse. He organized Dutch Fluxus festivals with Wim T. Schippers in 1963 and 1964.[3]

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

De Ridder's Amsterdam club, Provadya, was a center for the city's counterculture.[6]

He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Den Bosch. After finishing his studies, he decided to stop painting.[7]

He was part of the Sexual Egalitarian and Libertarian Fraternity (SELF), a group that edited Suck: The First European Sex Paper and organized the first international erotic film festival, the Wet Dream Festival.[8] He later influenced Annie Sprinkle.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Pakrammel". Concertzender. 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. [2]
    de Ridder, Willem (November 2, 2016). "Fluxus Tales". Flash Art. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  3. [3]
    Muller, Sheila D. (July 4, 2013). "Fluxus". Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-1-135-49574-9.
  4. [4]
    Christgau, Robert (April 27, 1997). "The Pleasure Seekers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  5. [5]
    Dunning, Jennifer (November 3, 1994). "DANCE REVIEW; Nude Cellist and Video Chaos, in Reprise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  6. [6]
    "Prog's: never-Netherlands". Record Collector. No. 430. August 2014. pp. 32–. ISSN 0261-250X. Gale A404271428.
  7. [7]
    "www.willemderidder.com - De Willem de Ridder website". www.willemderidder.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  8. [8]
    Gorfinkel, Elena (2006). "Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere". Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. 47 (2): 59–86. doi:10.1353/frm.2006.0012. ISSN 0306-7661. JSTOR 41552463. Gale A159028320.
  9. [9]
    Kostelanetz, Richard (November 15, 2018). "Annie Sprinkle". A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. Taylor & Francis. pp. 891–892. ISBN 978-1-351-26710-6.

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