# Peter Klashorst
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{{Short description|Dutch painter and photographer (1957–2024)}}
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'''Peter Klashorst''' (born '''Peter van de Klashorst,''' {{IPA|nl|ˈpeːtər vɑn də ˈklɑsɦɔrst|pron}}; 11 February 1957{{snd}}11 September 2024) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.
==Biography==
Klashorst was based in the [Tabakspanden](/source/Tabakspanden) on the [Spuistraat](/source/Spuistraat) in Amsterdam,[{{cite news |last1=Leeuwen |first1=Rob van |title=Een kleine geschiedenis van de Tabakspanden aan de Spuistraat |url=https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/een-kleine-geschiedenis-van-de-tabakspanden-aan-de-spuistraat~ba6b0185/ |accessdate=16 October 2019 |work=Het Parool |date=25 March 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806214946/https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/een-kleine-geschiedenis-van-de-tabakspanden-aan-de-spuistraat~ba6b0185/ |archivedate=6 August 2019 |language=nl-NL |quote=
In de panden woonden door de jaren heen niet alleen krakers. Zo huurde kunstenaar Peter Klashorst er een woonruimte en heeft hij er zijn galerie Cash & Carry zitten.}}] although he also produced works in cities such as [Bangkok](/source/Bangkok), [Mombasa](/source/Mombasa), and [Phnom Penh](/source/Phnom_Penh).
In 2011 he did one of his last self organised shows at the [Tuol Sleng](/source/Tuol_Sleng), S21 the former Khmer Rouge prison (Cambodia), in honour of the victims of the [Khmer Rouge](/source/Khmer_Rouge)’s terror and [genocide](/source/genocide) that took place from 1975 to 1979 in Cambodia. Klashorst created a set of around 50 paintings. The show got worldwide attention (''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' and ''Herald Tribune'').[{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/opinion/23iht-edbrady23.html|title=The Walking Dead|date=23 April 2011|work=International Herald Tribune|via=The New York Times}}]
Klashorst died of [lymphoma](/source/lymphoma) in Amsterdam, on 11 September 2024, at the age of 67; at the time of his death he had been suffering from [HIV](/source/HIV) for several years.[{{Cite web |date=11 September 2024 |title=Kunstenaar Peter Klashorst (67) overleden {{!}} Cultuur {{!}} Telegraaf.nl |url=https://www.telegraaf.nl/entertainment/1862932712/kunstenaar-peter-klashorst-67-overleden |access-date=11 September 2024 |website=Telegraaf |language=nl}}]
==Prizes==
*1982 [Johan en Titia Buning-Brongers Prize](/source/Buning_Brongers_Award)
*1983 Royal Prize for Free Painting (Netherlands)
==Work by Peter Klashorst==
File:Heaven above (by Peter Klashorst).jpg|''Heaven above''
File:Find the differences (painting by Peter Klashorst).jpg|''Find the differences''
File:Gesluierd3.jpg|''Gesluierd''
File:Backtowel.jpg|''Delicious female buttocks''
File:Klashorst(27442938323).jpg|''Double face, Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler''
==Bibliography==
*{{in lang|nl}} Steef Davidson, red., Peter Klashorst, tekeningen: ''Poëzie explosie : 23-5, 30-5, 6-6 1979'', Amsterdam, 1979
*{{in lang|nl}} Peter Klashorst; samenst. Timo van der Eng, Theo van der Hoeven; red.: Marleen Buddemeijer: ''Schilderen met acryl'', Utrecht, 1997, {{ISBN|90-6533-435-1}}
*{{in lang|nl}} Mieke Rijnders, Geurt Imanse: ''Over schilderkunst; Pieter Holstein, [René Daniels](/source/Rene_Daniels), Peter Klashorst'', 1983.
*{{in lang|nl}} Paul Groot et al.: ''After nature'', Amsterdam, 1989, catalogus uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de tentoonstellingen van Bart Domburg, Jurriaan van Hall en Peter Klashorst in de galerieën Jurka, Hans Gieles en Torch te Amsterdam.
*{{in lang|nl}} Robert Vuijsje: ''King Klashorst'', Amsterdam, 2005, {{ISBN|90-5000-428-8}}
*{{in lang|nl}} Peter Klashorst: ''Castles in the Air'', Bangkok, 2010, {{ISBN|978-94-90956-01-1}}
*{{in lang|nl}} Peter Klashorst: ''Kunstkannibaal'', 2012, {{ISBN|978-90-44617917}}
==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/klashorst_peter.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.]
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Category:20th-century Dutch painters
Category:21st-century Dutch painters
Category:Dutch male painters
Category:Photographers from Amsterdam
Category:20th-century Dutch sculptors
Category:21st-century Dutch sculptors
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Category:People with HIV/AIDS
Category:Dutch contemporary artists
Category:Deaths from lymphoma in the Netherlands
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