Willem de Ridder

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]

Willem de Ridder
de Ridder in 1968
Born(1939-10-14)October 14, 1939[1]
's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands[2]
DiedDecember 29, 2022(2022-12-29) (aged 83)
NationalityDutch
OccupationArtist
Known forFluxus

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. "Pakrammel". Concertzender. 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. de Ridder, Willem (November 2, 2016). "Fluxus Tales". Flash Art. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  3. Muller, Sheila D. (July 4, 2013). "Fluxus". Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-1-135-49574-9.
  4. Christgau, Robert (April 27, 1997). "The Pleasure Seekers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  5. Dunning, Jennifer (November 3, 1994). "DANCE REVIEW; Nude Cellist and Video Chaos, in Reprise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  6. "Prog's: never-Netherlands". Record Collector. No. 430. August 2014. pp. 32–. ISSN 0261-250X. Gale A404271428.
  7. "www.willemderidder.com - De Willem de Ridder website". www.willemderidder.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  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. ISSN 0306-7661. JSTOR 41552463. Gale A159028320.
  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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