Peter Klashorst

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Peter Klashorst (also Peter van de Klashorst) (born 11 February 1957, Santpoort) is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.

[edit] Biography

Klashorst specializes in painting and photographing women. He also has a wife and children in Africa.^[1]^[2] In 2000, in primarily Muslim Senegal, his art caused him to end up in custody of the police for some weeks.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] He was suspected of taking advantage of prostitution, inciting debauchery, and the production of obscene pictures, because he had painted local women in the nude. By bribing officials, he managed to buy his freedom,^[7] and he sneaked into The Gambia to flee the country.^[8] On another visit in 2003 he was also deported from Gambia for pornographic paintings.^[2]

In 2003 Klashorst did a brief entry into politics with his party "O O Den Haag",^[2] but later withdrew from the elections. He tried again in the Amsterdam municipal elections in 2006 with another new party "Huisje Boompje Beestje",^[9]^[10] but didn't succeed in getting enough votes.^[11]

King Klashorst is a biography written by Robert Vuijsje in 2005 about Klashorst.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Prizes

1982 Johan en Titia Buning-Brongers Prize
1983 Royal Prize for Free Painting (Netherlands)

[edit] Sources

(Dutch) Steef Davidson, red., Peter Klashorst, tekeningen: Poëzie explosie : 23-5, 30-5, 6-6 1979, Amsterdam, 1979
(Dutch) Peter Klashorst; samenst. Timo van der Eng, Theo van der Hoeven; red.: Marleen Buddemeijer: Schilderen met acryl, Utrecht, 1997, ISBN 9065334351
(Dutch) Mieke Rijnders, Geurt Imanse: Over schilderkunst; Pieter Holstein, René Daniels, Peter Klashorst, 1983.
(Dutch) 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.
(Dutch) Robert Vuijsje: King Klashorst, Amsterdam, 2005, ISBN 9050004288
(Dutch) Peter Klashorst: Castles in the Air, Bangkok, 2010, ISBN 9789490956011