Zwart biography

Versatile baritone.
Telling stories through opera, the oratorio and musical theatre.

Dutch-British Baritone Rick Zwart discovered his passion for music and theatre in high school. Inspired, he went on to earn Bachelors and Masters degrees(of which the latter with distinction) in vocal studies from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, respectively.

While at the Conservatorium, Rick studied with Pierre Mak. He was a frequent guest performer at the Dutch National Opera Academy and Opera Studio Netherlands, where he appeared as Figaro(Le nozze di Figaro – Mozart), Don Alfonso(Cosí fan tutte – Mozart), Publio(La clemenza di Tito – Mozart), Superintendant Budd(Albert Herring – Britten) and Filiberto(Il signor Bruschino – Rossini). He was also featured as Aeneas(Dido & Aeneas – Purcell) and the roles of Hymen, Sleep, Winter and The Drunken Poet (The Fairy Queen – Purcell) in masterclass productions directed by Claron McFaddon. He had the honour of participating in further masterclasses with Margreet Honig, Udo Reinemann and Ira Siff. Rick frequently visited Salzburg and Hamburg to learn with baritone Tom Krause, whose knowledge and kind heartedness were and are, still today, a great inspiration to him.
Alongside his operatic studies, Rick began developing his career as an oratorio singer. He performed a broad range of the repertoire and continues to do so today, regularly appearing in J.S. Bach’s Passions.

After his graduation from the Conservatorium, Rick couldn’t resist the call of the Motherland. He moved to London to continue his vocal studies with Robert Dean at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and later became a member of the prestigious opera course.
In addition to substantial scene work, as part of the course he performed the roles
of The Duke (The Cunning Peasant – Dvorák), Eustachio (I pazzi per progetto – Donizetti) and Der Landarzt (Ein Landarzt – Hans Werner Henz

1862-1931

WILLEM de ZWART

(1862-1931)

Willem de Zwart was born in The Hague on 16 May 1862, the eldest of eight children. His youngest brother, Pieter, would also become a painter. His father painted carriages for a living, and in 1875 the fourteen-year-old Willem was apprenticed to a carriage maker to learn the same trade. In his spare time, he copied prints he found in magazines, and a year later he enrolled in the evening class at the Royal Academy of Visual Art in The Hague. The following year, he was admitted at the studio of Jacob Maris. In the three years that he remained here, it is probable that he got to know many of the leading lights of the Hague School. Maris also sent De Zwart on a journey to the coast, without drawing materials, and had him work out his impressions directly on canvas when he returned to the studio.

De Zwart made several copies of works by 16th and 17th century masters. Sometimes he produced copies on commission. In this period, he also made detailed studies of animals, concentrating particularly on their legs, heads and snouts. De Zwart developed a fastidious painting style with a sober, predominantly brown palette.

Willem de Zwart lived and worked until 1894 in The Hague and from 1900 to 1905 in Amsterdam. His work has a wide range of subjects: landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and still life, rendered in a naturalistic or impressionist style. His work shows affinity with the people and city-oriented Amsterdam Impressionism. In his choice of subjects belonged to the Hague School and in his style and his exuberant use of color to the school of Amsterdam Impressionism. He is also known as the "Hague Breitner" because of the similarity of his work to that of George Hendrik Brietner. He painted his landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes with smooth, bold brushstrokes. De Zwart applied the paint thickly, sometimes straight from the tube, with bright colors, exuberant reds, yellows an

Dutch-Norwegian film director

Harald Zwart (born 1 July 1965) is a Dutch-Norwegianfilm director.

Life and career

Although born in the Netherlands, Zwart was raised in Fredrikstad, Norway. By age eight, he had started making short films. He attended the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam where he received great acclaim for his student film Gabriel's Surprise. The film was later televised. In addition to several award-winning short films, music videos and commercials, he directed the filmsAgent Cody Banks, One Night at McCool's, Hamilton and Lange Flate Ballær 2.

He is also the co-director and producer of the first Long Flat Balls, a Norwegian film about soccer fans from the city of Fredrikstad, Norway. This movie, often described as "The Full Monty" with more laughs, became a huge hit in Norway. His highest-grossing film to date is The Karate Kid. He also directed music videos for the Norwegian band a-ha, for the songs "Velvet" and "Forever Not Yours". He also directed the music video for a-ha vocalist Morten Harket's solo release song "Brother".

He is attached to direct Sony Pictures Animation's live-action/CG feature film based on the video game seriesRollerCoaster Tycoon, and as a director to Universal Pictures' Bakugan, a feature film based on the strategic game and anime series Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Filmography

Short film

Feature film

Story writer

Executive producer

Television

Music videos

References

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Dutch architect and industrial designer (1885–1977)

Not to be confused with Zwarte Piet.

Piet Zwart (Dutch pronunciation:[pitˈsʋɑrt]; 28 May 1885 – 24 September 1977) was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer.

Biography

Early life

Piet Zwart was born on May 28, 1885, in Zaandijk. He trained as an architect, and began graphic design projects at age 36. His training as an architect included designing furniture and interiors. He was influenced by the De Stijl movement, which focused on the essentials of form, colour and line, but later moved to a more functional design aesthetic. In the early 1920s Zwart received his first typographic commissions from Laga, a flooring manufacturer. Zwart had no formal training in typography or printing, so he was uninhibited by the rules and methods of traditional professional practices. Zwart regarded typography as an important cultural force of the 20th-century.

Education

Zwart attended the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam (National School of Applied Arts, Amsterdam), which later merged into the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Amsterdam University of the Arts), from 1902 to 1907. He studied a diverse range of art related subjects including painting and architecture, and he was introduced to the principles of the English Arts and Crafts movement.

From 1908 he taught drawing and art history lessons at the Industrie- en Huishoudschool voor Meisjes, (Industrial and Domestic School for Girls) in Leeuwarden. In 1913 he moved to Voorburg and returned to study, attending the Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology) from 1913 to 1914.

Later life

From 1919, while continuing to work as an independent designer, he began teaching at the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts, now the Willem de Kooning Academy. He was dismissed in 1933 because of what were conside