Gerrit Van Gelderen
Gerrit van Gelderen (1926-1994) was a Dutch-born naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist, who lived and worked in Ireland for a large part of his life. He is famous for his television work on Amuigh Faoin Spéir with Éamon de Buitléar.[1] and his series "To the Waters and the Wild" than ran from 1974 - 1994. Born in Rotterdam in 1926, Gerrit was educated at the college of art in the Hague. He moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1955 to work in advertising. Some of his illustrations featured in the Farmers Journal. In the 1960s he started working with de Buitlear producing programmes for television.
Van Gelderen was a close friend of fellow Dutch graphic designer and artist Jan de Fouw who also moved to Ireland, their families lived together in Islandbridge, before moving to adjoining houses in Glencullen, in the Dublin mountains[2]
Van Gelderen and de Fouw were among a group of Dutch artists who moved to Ireland in the 1950s, including Guus Melai, Bert van Embden, Willem van Velzen, Piet Sluis and Cor Klaasen(Text books covers).
Gerrit died in 1994 following a lung operation, survived by his wife Lies Van Gelderen and four children Merlin, Aoife, Finn and Oisin.
Work
- The Burren(1984) Director, Writer and Cinematographer[3]
- Amuigh Faoin Spéir (Out Under the Sky) with Éamon de Buitléar, drawings by Gerrit Van Gelderen
- An tOchtapas agus rainn eile (Baile Atha Cliath: Clódhanna Teo 1977), illustrations by Gerrit Van Gelderen.
- To the waters and the wild, Gerrit van Gelderen (1974)
- To the Waters and the Wild/Adventures of a Wildlife Film Maker by Gerrit Van Gelderen, (1986).
- Doings by Gerrit Van Gelderen, (1975)
References
- ↑ Éamon de Buitléar www.rte.ie
- ↑ Jane de Fouw Obiturary Irish Times, March 5, 2015..
- ↑ Gerrit Van Gelderen IMDB.