Born
in Haarlem in the Netherlands in 1945.
An important part of his childhood he lived on Curaçao, Caribbean's.
After
finishing high school and graduating from a private art school at Delft,
he started of as an insurance broker.
Ten years later, 1973, he decided to leave this cold business world and
sell his business.
He moved to Mijas Spain to dedicate his life to the arts, his first love.
After
attempting several different stages of abstract and surrealism, Breebaart
finally found the ideal style in consciously primitive painting.
His paintings noticeably capture a longing to return to the honest simplicity of childhood - streets, landscapes, festivities and especially people - colours of the four seasons in which he paints.
Beauty, composition and architecture are always the basic background, emphasising strongly the naivety of his people and giving the general illusion of innocence.
From
1973 to 1983 Fred Breebaart had his own gallery in Mijas, Spain. In '83
he came back to Delft in the Netherlands. It is then that the memories of
his childhood in Curaçao came in his mind again and the growing need he
felled resulted finally in 1990 to a exhibition on the isle.
Since then he's been more then ones on Curaçao, always returning home with
piles of photo's and a head full with new ideas. Was it Henny Blok who gave
Fred his first exhibition and represented him in the first years, now it
is Popi Verboom with her gallery Alma Blou representing Fred Breebaart
on the isle of Curaçao.
should look joyful in its surrounding, whereby there are always more people present then could reasonably be expected in the situation inviting to a close look of the details and little jokes, so that a smile will show by the spectator.
This smile that keeps coming back with (re) discovering more details, is to me the most important incentive and reward I get."
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The subjects cover mainly paintings of houses or life stories but can also cover marriages and other festivities such as graduation, births etc or even a special idea.
Life story paintings can include all events, facts and memories for example,
-Houses, schools, work places, travels etc
-Family members, friends etc made recognisable by their occupation, hobby, clothes, but also at different ages next to the houses they occupied at the time.
-Exceptional events and amusing anecdotes.
In the house paintings the family members and pets can also be included.
For further information concerning the different presentation possibilities please consult for live story paintingmy website; www.fredbreebaart.nl/levensloop.htm and
www.fredbreebaart.nl/galerie_huisportret.htm for house portaits
where you will find examples of my earlier work on the above subjects.
Prior to placing an order I kindly request you to contact me well in advance as the preparation time needed takes quite some time.
