Willem de Ridder

Willem de Ridder
Willem de Ridder
	January 9, 1968
Born	October 14, 1939 (age 81)
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation	Artist
Known for	Fluxus

Willem de Ridder (born 1939^[2]) is a Dutch anarchist^[3] and artist, known as a founder of Fluxus.^[4] He was the foremost Fluxus member in the Netherlands. He showed and sold Fluxus works in his gallery, Amstel 47, and shops Fluxshop and European Mail-Order Warehouse. He organized Dutch Fluxus festivals with Wim T. Schippers in 1963 and 1964.^[2]

de Ridder's Amsterdam club, Provadya, was a center for the city's counterculture.^[5]

He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Den Bosch. After finishing his studies, he decided to stop painting.^[6]

He was part of the Sexual Egalitarian and Libertarian Fraternity (SELF), a group that edited Suck: The First European Sex Paper and organized the first international erotic film festival, the .^[7] He later influenced Annie Sprinkle.^[8]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Muller, Sheila D. (July 4, 2013). "Fluxus". Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. pp. 140–141. ISBN 978-1-135-49574-9.
^ Christgau, Robert (April 27, 1997). "The Pleasure Seekers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
^ Dunning, Jennifer (November 3, 1994). "DANCE REVIEW; Nude Cellist and Video Chaos, in Reprise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
^ "Prog's: never-Netherlands". Record Collector (430). August 2014. pp. 32–. ISSN 0261-250X. Gale A404271428.
^ "www.willemderidder.com - De Willem de Ridder website". www.willemderidder.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
^ Gorfinkel, Elena (2006). "Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere". Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media. 47 (2): 59–86. ISSN 0306-7661. JSTOR 41552463. Gale A159028320.
^ Kostelanetz, Richard (November 15, 2018). "Annie Sprinkle". A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes. Taylor & Francis. pp. 891–892. ISBN 978-1-351-26710-6.