Milou Hermus - Vereniging Electrotechnisch Vakonderwijs

MILOU HERMUS Milou Hermus (Dordrecht, April 17, 1947 – Amsterdam, April 11, 2021) was a Dutch visual artist. NB! The description takes place in 1998. Career After her education at the Sint Joost art academy in Breda, she started as a fashion designer and developed into a draftsman, illustrator and portrait painter. In the 1970s she became known and caused a sensation with dazzling, 'daring' erotic illustrations for the trendy and glossy magazine Avenue, on the initiative of Dick de Moei, 'art director of fashion reporting' at the Avenue. Hermus also worked for 'BIJ', the house magazine of De Bijenkorf. After the self-chosen death of her life partner, sculptor and painter Ton Blommerde (1946-2005), Hermus fell into a painter's block. She got over this by dedicating herself to Les belles Hollandaises (2008); life-sized portraits of friends, including performer Moniek Toebosch, who had also modeled for her in their youth. From 2012, this series was followed by a number of life-size portraits of eighteen well-known Dutch men in their shirts, under the title Hollandse Heren (2015), including Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Wim Crouwel, Wim Pijbes and Adriaan van Dis. Milou Hermus passed away on April 11, 2021, six days before her 74th birthday in Amsterdam. Since 1988, Milou Hermus has been drawing in a more abstract and poetic way. What remained was the desire to tell a story through illustrations. She creates a symbolic language and is communicative without committing herself to reality. She builds her drawings from shape, color and calligraphy, in which calligraphy is also used as a form. The form is more important than the meaning of words. She herself compares her current way of working to climbing a capricious, unknown mountain. Start somewhere and climb up. There is no going back so you have to be very inventive to overcome all the difficulties. Each drawing is therefore unique. Each illustration is a new adventure. Milou currently works as an illustrator for annual reports, brochures and calendars for PTT (now KPN), NBM-Amstelland and KPMG-Klynveld. In addition to her magazine work for Avenue, Playboy, MAN, Quote and BLAD, she designs book covers and the house magazine of the Bijenkorf. VEV (Association for the promotion of Electrotechnical Vocational Education) The abbreviation VEV stands for Association to promote Electrotechnical Vocational Education, it is also simply translated as Association of Electrotechnical Vocational Education. This is an association that has occupied an important position in the field of education in electrical engineering for more than ninety years. The VEV focuses on improving the quality of education in electrical engineering. The body develops vocational training courses for this purpose. In addition, the VEV develops and provides teaching materials, courses and exams. VEV ensures alignment of interests The VEV wants courses in electrical engineering to be well connected to practice. That is why the VEV often works together with employer organisations. In addition, the association also cooperates with employee organizations and educational institutions. These different organizations and interest groups view electrical engineering from different angles. Employers have an interest in good staff, but they also pay attention to costs. Staff would like to have sufficient knowledge, but need the space of companies to learn and work. Companies will therefore have to invest in personnel. Personnel will have to commit themselves to the training institute and will also have to work effectively and professionally in the company. Training institutions want to offer professional training, but nowadays also pay a lot of attention to the costs associated with education. Training institutions must also regularly adapt their training content to the new techniques and methods that are applied in practice. VEV recognition Companies active in electrical engineering can submit a request to VEV to become a recognized training company. VEV can operate as a recognized training company. The association does this on the basis of the activities that the company carries out and the guidance that the company can offer students. Based on this, the VEV, together with the company, draws up a list of training courses that can be followed at the company with VEV recognition. A company can become a company for the following BBL and BOL courses VEV and MILOU HERMUS She made this work on behalf of VEV (Association for the promotion of Electrotechnical Vocational Education) in an edition of 299 pieces. It is an art print after which she started painting over the art print again after the printing process. In this way, unique works are created that all differ from each other. The artwork that is offered is number 124. It is remarkable that a signature can be seen at the bottom right of the artwork, which you will also encounter on the invoice. A copy of this invoice, which is enclosed, is just as artistic as her artwork. A description is also included with each signed work of art. ( see pictures) The size of the artwork with frame is 90 cm x 65.5 cm x 2.5 cm (width x height x thickness). There is also an unsigned art print behind the signed artwork in the frame.
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