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Jan Hendrix (born 1949) is a Dutch-born artist who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1978. Hendrix received the Order of the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican government for his work in art and architecture. ==Life== Jan Hendrix was born in Maasbree, the Netherlands . He was born into a farm family that opposed his artistic aspirations. At sixteen, he routinely skipped classes except for art. At seventeen, he entered the Den Bosch Royal Art Academy, but was expelled for rebelliousness. In 1968, he was invited by Japanese artist Shinkichi Tajiri to enter the Ateliers '63 School in Haarlem, which was considered the most radical school at the time. Here he received a multidisciplinary education and at the same time worked at the Smeets press in the city of Weert. From 1971 to 1975, he worked on his masters at the Jan van Eyck Academie, where a professor encouraged him to focus on the graphic arts.〔 Between 1971 and 1976, he lived in France, Portugal, Norway, and Iceland, and has lived and worked in Mexico since 1978.〔 He has visited Kenya (1990), Egypt (1991), China and Australia (1996), Turkey (1998), Ireland (1999), Spain and Yugoslavia (2001) . In 1975, he received a fellowship from the Ministry of Culture to travel to Mexico to study the country’s landscapes. His first contact was José Chávez Morado who invited him to start a serigraphy studio at the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato with the aim of registering the pre Hispanic cylindrical seals of Frederick Fields.〔 His son Jonas was born in 1976 in Mexico City. That same year, he frequented the Luis López Loza workship in Colonia Condesa, working with Emilio Ortiz, Fiona Alexander and Leonora Carrington as well as mentors Francisco Toledo and Gunther Gerzso .〔 Since 1978, he has remained in Mexico City, where he currently resides He took a year sabbatical in 2010 to study the first Australian plants collected in 1770, which are at the Natural History Museum of London.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Hendrix」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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