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Silkscreen by Herman Brood. Title: If I Didn't Have You. Edition: EA Sheet dimensions: H60 x W50cm. Dimensions representation: H43 x W33cm. The work is signed on the right side by the artist. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity will be emailed upon request.

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Hermanus (Herman) Brood (Zwolle, November 5, 1946 – Amsterdam, July 11, 2001) was a Dutch singer, painter, pianist, actor and author. Brood distinguished himself by his distinctive singing voice and musical diversity. With the very flamboyant lifestyle he coveted and deliberately displayed, he became the Dutch embodiment of the hedonistic creed Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll. Brood eventually showed standard withdrawal symptoms such as incontinence, epilepsy and delirium tremens after years of frequent and excessive amphetamine and alcohol use. Four months before his fifty-fifth birthday, he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel with a farewell note in his pocket.

An anecdote about his boyhood tells us that Brood's family doctor claimed in 1953 that Brood, with his color blindness, could become anything but a painter. He received his first piano lessons in 1959. He could not keep up well at school: he preferred to play on a piano in his father's dilapidated factory in Zwolle. Brood went to the Art Academy in Arnhem in 1964 and became a member of the local beat group The Moans. The band did many performances for American soldiers in West Germany and Brood was sometimes given a pill to stay awake. That's how his addiction started. In 1967 he switched to Cuby and the Blizzards (album Greetings from Grollo). He met Tekie Buissink, with whom he had a short-lived relationship. Their son Marcel was born on May 24, 1968. When the record company learned that he was using drugs, he was kicked out of the band. An unclear period followed in which Brood regularly ended up in prison for burglaries and drug trafficking.

Cuby and the Blizzards with standing Herman Brood (third from left) with Eddy Boyd next to him (1968)

In early 1974, Brood took part in a Cuby and the Blizzards reunion for the VARA television program Nederpopzien. From this moment on, he resumed his musical career. He played for a short time in the North Holland formation Stud and recorded an album with Jan Akkerman, among others, under the name Flash & Dance Band. He then joined the band Vitesse. After the debut album in 1975, he left it again.

Herman Brood (1979)

In 1976 a crucial meeting took place. Brood played again in Cuby and the Blizzards, which was briefly re-established when he dropped the needle of his syringe in a wastepaper basket in café 't Pleintje in Winschoten. The owner of the cafe, Koos van Dijk, came in when Brood was looking for his needle in the wastebasket. Instead of putting Brood outside the door, Van Dijk turned the wastepaper basket over and diligently searched. From that moment on, Van Dijk acted as Brood's agent; he would remain in this position until Brood's death in 2001.

1977 - 1981 The heyday of Herman Brood & His Wild Romance

Brood left Cuby and the Blizzards and started his own formation Herman Brood & His Wild Romance (see also: Wild Romance). In 1977 the album Street was released, which was received enthusiastically. Shpritsz followed in 1978. The single Saturday Night became a big hit. Germany and France became interested. Brood worked in the 1979 film Cha Cha by Herbert Curiël and married punk opera singer Nina Hagen in the film. He also released a carnival song with a number of members of his band under the name De Broadbekkikkers Make of your fart a thunderclap. In the same year he left for the United States. But an American tour was not a success and the album Go Nutz (1980) produced in the US was rejected both there and in the Netherlands. Brood's career collapsed on this.

Later solo activities

In 1984 he released the album The Brood which was received positively. In the same year he recorded the single Als je win with Doe Maar singer Henny Vrienten, which ended up in the top 10 of the charts. In addition to this song, he also recorded another reggae song in English that year, Tattoo song, which also became a hit. In 1985 he married Xandra Jansen. Together they had two children and an adopted daughter.

Herman Brood in 2000

In the years that followed, his career fanned out. Brood acted in a play and a feature film, but mainly in his own life. At the end of the nineties he performed in the theater together with Bart Chabot and Jules Deelder with the performance Apocryef. He also became increasingly active as a painter. He worked in large format and with bright colors, his work being in the tradition of Cobra. In Leidschendam he decorated a parking garage with eight enormous murals that determined the streetscape for years. The choice of primary colors was largely out of necessity, as he was color blind. He often applied letters to his work with black paint. The signature 'bread' often forms a striking part of the painting. Despite the use of color, the paintings have a somewhat sad appearance. Brood also remained active in music, but his albums from this period no longer reached the level of Shpritsz. He became famous for his open statements in the press about sex and drug use. He enjoyed all the attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands; the 'national cuddly junkie'.

Personal life

Brood had several longer relationships. At the end of the seventies he went with Dorien from The Hague, for whom he wrote the song Doreen, which is on Shpritsz. During the tour through America he met Laurie McAllister, bass player in the band The Runaways. He also had a relationship with her for several years. In 1983, Brood met Xandra Jansen from Brabant in the Amsterdam disco '36 on the Richter scale', where she stood behind the bar. They married on January 3, 1985. In July of that year daughter Lola Pop Brood was born. She was not Brood's first child. In 1968 he became the father of son Marcel Buissink, who was born after a one-night stand with a Groningen model. In 1994, Xandra Jansen gave birth to a second daughter, Holly Mae Brood, who was not fathered by Brood. However, he considered Holly Mae his own daughter and she also officially bears his last name, because she was born within the marriage of Brood and Jansen. Although he did not live with his family for a number of years, but frequently cheated in his studio at Jan van Eijckstraat 45 in Amsterdam, he never divorced Xandra Brood.

Drug use and death

Due to the use of all stimulants, his body was completely exhausted by 2001. Attempts to kick the habit were unsuccessful. On July 11, 2001 at 1:28 pm, fifty-four-year-old Brood jumped off the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel with a note in his inside pocket that read:

Herman Brood's grave

Xandra & all sweethearts, This speed instead of burning up I leave that to the cremation. ... Carry on as I did... and don't grieve! make it a party. I see you sometimes. I'm going bungy with no elastic now. Mercy - Daddy. DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS.

People were perplexed, as was his record label, because Brood, according to Henkjan Smits, would be working on a major project, namely a fifties soul record with a large orchestra and collaborations with Ann Peebles and Ray Charles, among others. In the period shortly after his death, a lively trade in paintings and serigraphs by Brood developed, including forgeries. Brood was cremated in Westgaarde and his ashes were buried in an urn grave at Zorgvlied on which stands a giant gray female angel (with an anti-clothing theft button on the back near the right wing).

In 2006, Wild Romance guitarist Dany Lademacher wrote a book about his period with Brood. Later that year, the film Wild Romance was released, in which Daniël Boissevain played the role of Brood. Seven years after Brood's death, an unknown song by the singer was found and released in 2008. Papa is not coming home tonight is a collaboration with rapper MC Drama, a friend of Brood at the time. They wrote the song together in 1998.

Exhibitions

Bust of Herman Brood in Zwolle

Graffiti in Delft in 2004 in memory of Brood

After Brood's death, in 2002 the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen hosted the first retrospective of his work, along with photographs taken by his friend, the photographer Anton Corbijn. Brood's work had previously never been recognized by museums, although his work had been on public display much earlier, such as between 8 and 22 November 1984 in Groningen.[7] However, there were many enthusiasts and his paintings were sold well.

In December 2005, a Herman Brood museum was opened in Wageningen. The museum, which was free to enter, had the largest collection of original paintings, serigraphs and drawings. There were also some painted sculptures and objects, a very extensive collection of (rare) LPs and singles, Brood's original bumper car and a number of his personal belongings. Later the name Herman Brood Museum was changed to HB-M. Because the exhibition space has disappeared, HB-M is almost exclusively concerned with inspections of Brood's work and the issue of Certificates of Authenticity.

On November 5, 2006, an exhibition about Brood was opened in the rock art gallery in Hoek van Holland under the title Brood's life. Here was a combined overview of Brood's music and art.

From November 5, 2006 to January 28, 2007, the entire studio was transferred to the Groninger Museum to be exhibited there in honor of the film Wild Romance, which also premiered in Groningen. The exhibition, called Cha Cha. Phenomenon Herman Brood, focused on the artist's studio, the place where Brood made many of his paintings, composed music, wrote lyrics, often slept and had free rein to his unconventional lifestyle. His real studio near the Spui in Amsterdam had remained virtually untouched since Brood's death. In April 2008, the studio was finally evacuated.

On May 13, 2011, the Herman Brood Gallery was opened in the Westcord Art Hotel in Amsterdam, with many large canvases and various screen prints that have never been exhibited before. Between 11 May 2014 and 24 August 2014 there was an exhibition in the Willem van Haren Museum. Mostly paintings from the collection of Koos van Dijk were on display here. From 29 January to 28 March 2016, the Museum Jan van der Togt in Amstelveen organized a major exhibition of paintings and drawings by Brood, who would have turned 70 that year.

Herman Brood Museum & Experience

Herman Brood Museum & Experience Zwolle

See Herman Brood Museum & Experience for the main article on this subject.

In April 2017, the Herman Brood Experience started in Zwolle at Blijmarkt 21, where Brood's work can be admired. The visitor gets an insight into the life of the artist born in Zwolle through photos, objects, film and sound. The Herman Brood Museum & Experience shows a broad collection of Brood, originating from the private collection of friend and initiator Ivo de Lange, widow Xandra Brood, daughter Lola and both of Brood's sisters. It concerns letters, drawings and poems, written and painted by him on canvas, pieces of paper and beer mats. Personal items from Brood himself are also on display. Photos that have never been shown before, guitars painted by him, items of clothing, painting material and even his syringe needles.