Herman Brood - ingelijste zeefdruk: Tokkel (nette lijst) - Sold

Silkscreen by Herman Brood. Title: Tokkel. Edition: 142/150. Dimensions including frame: H122 x W97cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H87 x w64cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity, from Kiewit Kunst, is included.

Robert Willem Imker[1], (Assen, 26 July 1948[2] – there, 4 February 2001) - alias Tokkel - was a homeless (street) musician in Assen:

Tokkel grew up in Assen and was a heating engineer as a young adult. He played a lot of guitar and formed the band Tokki and the street dogs and in the spring of 1968, together with his brother Remco, the band Sound of Imker. They also came up with the short rock musical Heart Transplantation, a parody of the world's first heart transplant performed at the end of 1967. They performed in 1968 during the Utrecht festival A Flight to Lowlands Paradise. Their first single Train of Doomsday (1969)[3] was rejected by the record company. After brother Remco Imker found injection needles in the tour bus, he dissolved the band.[4]

After that, things went wrong with Tokkel. He withdrew and became addicted. When his wife, with whom he had two daughters, left him, he started living as a homeless person. He became a well-known appearance in Assen. Herman Brood became friends with Tokkel when he met him in the former town hall of Assen, which Brood had broken into to steal lead sheet.[5] He brought Tokkel to Amsterdam for a while and tried to help him get his life back on track. For some time, Tokkel was rhythm guitarist with Herman Brood & The Allstars.[6] He tried to start a new band but to no avail. He became addicted again and left for Assen, where he helped in the market and begged money for drink. His regular statement was: "Hey 'n guld'n for me".

The last years of his life he lived with other homeless people in an abandoned construction site. He also lived for a while in the boardroom of an empty factory. He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 52, where he died the next day. His death was national news. [source?] At his funeral Herman Brood put a guitar on his coffin. Pluck would have left this guitar with him once. Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

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Hermanus (Herman) Brood (Zwolle, November 5, 1946 – Amsterdam, July 11, 2001) was a Dutch singer, painter, pianist, actor and author. Brood was distinguished by his distinctive singing voice and musical diversity. With the highly flamboyant lifestyle he coveted and deliberately displayed, he became the Dutch embodiment of the hedonistic credo Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll. Brood eventually showed standard withdrawal symptoms such as incontinence, epilepsy and delirium tremens after years of frequent and excessive amphetamine and alcohol use. Four months before his fifty-fifth birthday, he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel with a suicide note in his pocket.

An anecdote about his boyhood is that in 1953 Brood's general practitioner stated that with his color blindness Brood could become anything, except a painter. He got his first piano lessons in 1959. He couldn't keep up well at school: he preferred to ping around on a piano in his father's dilapidated factory in Zwolle. Brood went to the Art Academy in Arnhem in 1964 and became a member of the local beat group The Moans. The band did many performances for American soldiers in West Germany and Brood was sometimes given a pill to stay awake. Thus began his addiction. In 1967 he switched to Cuby and the Blizzards (album Greetings from Grollo). He met Tekie Buissink, with whom he had a short-lived relationship. Their son Marcel was born on May 24, 1968. When the record company learned that he was using drugs, he was expelled from the band. An unclear period followed in which Brood regularly ended up in prison for burglaries and drug trafficking.

Cuby and the Blizzards with Herman Brood (third from left) standing with Eddy Boyd (1968) next to him

In early 1974, Brood participated in a Cuby and the Blizzards reunion for the VARA television program Nederpopzien. From this moment he picked up his musical career again. He played briefly in the North Holland formation Stud and recorded an album with Jan Akkerman, among others, under the name Flash & Dance Band. He then joined the band Vitesse. After the debut album in 1975 he left it again.

Herman Brood (1979)

In 1976 a crucial meeting took place. Brood played again in Cuby and the Blizzards, which had been re-established for a short time, when he dropped the needle of his syringe into a wastepaper basket in café 't Pleintje in Winschoten. The owner of the cafe, Koos van Dijk, came in when Brood was looking for his needle in the wastepaper basket. Instead of putting Brood outside the door, Van Dijk turned over the wastepaper basket and searched diligently. From that moment on, Van Dijk acted as Brood's agent; he would remain so until Brood's death in 2001.

1977 - 1981 The heyday of Herman Brood & His Wild Romance

Brood left Cuby and the Blizzards and started his own formation Herman Brood & His Wild Romance (see also: Wild Romance). In 1977 the album Street was released, which was enthusiastically received. Shpritsz followed in 1978. The single Saturday Night became a big hit. Germany and France became interested. Brood participated in the 1979 film Cha Cha by Herbert Curiël and in the film married punk opera singer Nina Hagen. He also released a carnival song Make of your fart a thunderclap out with a number of members of his band under the name De Breedbekkikkers. In the same year he left for the United States. But an American tour was not a success and the US-produced album Go Nutz (1980) was slated both there and in the Netherlands. This caused Brood's career to collapse.

Later solo activities

In 1984 he released the album The Brood which was positively received. In the same year he recorded the single If you win with Doe Maar singer Henny Vrienten, which ended up in the top 10 of the charts. In addition to this song, he also recorded another English reggae song that year, Tattoo song, which also became a hit. In 1985 he married Xandra Jansen. Together they had two children and an adopted daughter.

Herman Brood in 2000

In the years that followed, his career fanned out. Brood acted in a play and a feature film, but mainly in his own life. At the end of the nineties, he performed in the theater together with Bart Chabot and Jules Deelder with the performance Apocriff. He also became increasingly active as a painter. He worked in large format and with bright colors, his work being in the tradition of Cobra. In Leidschendam he decorated a parking garage with eight enormous murals that determined the street scene for years. The choice of primary colors was largely out of necessity, as he was color blind. He often applied letters to his work with black paint. The signature 'bread' often forms a striking part of the painting. Despite the use of color, the paintings have a somewhat sad appearance. Brood also remained active in music, but his albums from this period no longer reached the level of Shpritsz. He became famous for his open statements in the press about sex and drug use. He enjoyed all the attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands; the 'national cuddle junkie'.

Personal life

Brood had several longer relationships. At the end of the seventies he went with Dorien from The Hague, for whom he wrote the song Doreen, which is on Shpritsz. While touring America, he met Laurie McAllister, bassist in the band The Runaways. He also had a relationship with her for several years. In 1983 Brood got to know Xandra Jansen from Brabant in the Amsterdam discotheque '36 on the Richter scale', where she stood behind the bar. They married on January 3, 1985. In July of that year, daughter Lola Pop Brood was born. She was not Brood's first child. In 1968 he became the father of son Marcel Buissink, who was born after a one-night stand with a model from Groningen. In 1994, Xandra Jansen gave birth to a second daughter, Holly Mae Brood, who was not fathered by Brood. However, he considered Holly Mae to be his own daughter and she also officially bears his last name, because she was born within the marriage of Brood and Jansen. Although he did not live with his family for a number of years, but frequently cheated on his studio at 45 Jan van Eijckstraat in Amsterdam, he never divorced Xandra Brood.

Drug use and death

Due to the use of all stimulants, his body was completely worn out by 2001. Attempts to kick the habit were unsuccessful. On July 11, 2001 at 1:28 pm, fifty-four-year-old Brood jumped off the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel with a note in his inside pocket that read:

Herman Brood's grave

Xandra & all the cuties, This speed instead of burning up I leave that to the cremation. ... Rous on as I did ... and do not grieve ! make it a party. I see you sometimes. I now go bungy without elastic. Grace - daddy. DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS.

People were perplexed, as was his record label, because Brood, according to Henkjan Smits, would be working on a major project, namely a fifties soul record with a large orchestra and collaborations with Ann Peebles and Ray Charles, among others. In the period shortly after his death, there was a lively trade in paintings and serigraphs by Brood, in which forgeries also appeared. Brood was cremated in Westgaarde and his ashes were buried in an urn grave on Zorgvlied on which stands a giant gray female angel (with an anti-clothing theft button on the back near the right wing).

In 2006 Wild Romance guitarist Dany Lademacher wrote a book about his period with Brood. Later that year, the film Wild Romance was released, in which Daniël Boissevain played the role of Brood. Seven years after Brood's death, an unknown song by the singer was found and released in 2008. Papa is not coming home tonight is a collaboration with rapper MC Drama, a friend of Brood at the time. They wrote the song together in 1998.

Exhibitions

Bust of Herman Brood in Zwolle

Graffiti in Delft in 2004 in memory of Brood

After Brood's death, a first retrospective of his work was shown in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen in 2002, alongside photos taken by his friend, the photographer Anton Corbijn. Previously, Brood's work had never been recognized in museums, although his work had been on display to the public much earlier, such as between 8 and 22 November 1984 in Groningen.[7] However, there were many enthusiasts and his paintings sold well.

In December 2005 a Herman Brood museum was opened in Wageningen. The museum, which was free to enter, had the largest collection of original paintings, serigraphs and drawings. There were also some painted sculptures and objects, a very extensive collection of (rare) LPs and singles, Brood's original bumper car and a number of his personal belongings. Later the name Herman Brood Museum was changed to HB-M. Because the exhibition space has disappeared, HB-M is almost exclusively involved in inspections of Brood's work and the issuance of Certificates of Authenticity.

On November 5, 2006, an exhibition about Brood was opened in the rock art gallery in Hoek van Holland under the title Brood's life. This presented a combined overview of Brood's music and art.

From November 5, 2006 to January 28, 2007, the entire studio was transferred to the Groninger Museum to be exhibited there in honor of the film Wild Romance, which also premiered in Groningen. The exhibition, called Cha Cha. Phenomenon Herman Brood focused on the artist's studio, the place where Brood made many of his paintings, composed music, wrote texts, often slept and his unconventional way of life had free rein. His real studio near the Spui in Amsterdam had remained virtually untouched since Brood's death. In April 2008 the studio was finally evacuated.

On May 13, 2011, the Herman Brood Gallery was opened in the Westcord Art Hotel in Amsterdam, with mostly previously unexhibited large canvases and various screen prints. Between May 11, 2014 and August 24, 2014 there was an exhibition in the Willem van Haren Museum. Mostly paintings from the collection of Koos van Dijk hung here. From January 29 to March 28, 2016, the Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen organized a major exhibition of paintings and drawings by Brood, who would have turned 70 that year.

Herman Brood Museum & Experience

Herman Brood Museum & Experience Zwolle

See Herman Brood Museum & Experience for the main article on this subject.

In April 2017, the Herman Brood Experience started in Zwolle at Blijmarkt 21, where Brood's work can be admired. The visitor gets an insight into the life of the artist born in Zwolle through photos, objects, film and sound. The Herman Brood Museum & Experience shows a wide collection of Brood, from the private collection of friend and initiator Ivo de Lange, widow Xandra Brood, daughter Lola and both sisters of Brood. It concerns letters, drawings and poems, written and painted by him on canvas, pieces of paper and beer coasters. There are also personal items of Brood himself on display. Never-before-seen photos, guitars painted by him, pieces of clothing, painting materials and even his spraying needles.