Gijs Frieling

Gijs Frieling (b. 1966) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 1999 he won the Prix de Rome. He has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Minerva Academy in Groningen. Frieling’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has increasingly specialized in murals, big projects in which he covers all the walls of corridors and rooms. He paints religious subjects as well as idealized depictions of the world of nature as metaphors for divine creation. He also finds inspiration in other artists, art-historical themes, religious rituals, philosophy, films and literature. Frieling is a member of the Christian Community, a denomination with an anthroposophic slant that developed out of the Lutheran Church in 1922. www.gijsfrieling.nl