Hoogerbrugge
Han Hoogerbrugge is a Dutch digital artist.
About the Artist
Born in 1963 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He was trained as a painter and cartoonist, but adapted to his skills to better fit the emerging WWW era in the mid 90's. Posting his animations, first as comic strips, on the web soon made him the most followed illustrators on the internet. Han Hoogerbrugge often uses himself a the subject of his pieces, responding to this by saying that these works reflect his dreams, personality, etc. and by creating these various self portraits, he is creating new identities within these pieces. [1] Hoogerbrugge has explained that he uses his "dreams, expectations, conflicts, experiences, hopes, defeats, fears, demons, questions, laughter, lust" all as inspiration for his works, considering them to be self portraits.[1] He also tries to include aspects of interactivity in his works, but at the same time keeping them brief as he feels he just "want(s) to watch something short and move on”[1].
Artworks
- FLOW
- Hoogerbrugge.com (1998-2001)
- HOTEL (2004-06)
- NAILS (2005)
- ProStress.com (2008)
Publishings
In 2008, Hoogerbrugge published a self biographical book by the name of Modern Living, The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge[2]. In it, he talks about the different aspects and motivations that lead up to his first major interactive piece Modern Living/Neurotica.
Other published works include Pro Stress, Pro Stress #2, So-And-So, and CLUMSINESS, FRUSTRATIONS AND AWKWARDNESS
References
External Links
Modern Living, The Graphic Universe of Han Hoogerbrugge
Authors
Alec Korchev, Sara Sampson (2014)