Biography of Michel van Overbeeke

Intercession of the then Director of the Frans Hals Museum modern art he comes as 23-year-old in the Visual Arts Scheme (BKR) and from then on he has the freedom to focus on the kunstenaarssschap. After three years he can say goodbye again the BKR. He sells a whole exhibition in Amsterdam from and that delivers him five thousand guilders on. A formidable amount for 1969! The future laughs him! There breaks a successful period for Van Overbeeke. The work sells very well and his wife Christhilde takes the business side of the artist's role. That means that the two are constantly at each other, and that starts to wring out. After fifteen years of marriage they go apart. Michel goes to India and immerses himself there in the philosophy, yoga-culture and religion. He has always religious symbols incorporated into his art and will no longer let go. All religions get in its own way a place in his work. In addition, will also get the erotic an important place. Not to be provocative, but to let his feelings. In his work battling the symbols of the woman, eroticism and religion to their own place in its expression world. The recognition has come and also internationally, his work shown at exhibitions and expositions all over the world: Brussels, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Paris, Buffalo, Luxembourg, Ljubljana.