Paul Van Hoeydonck - silkscreen

Publisher: Amsterdam Art Centre b.v. - Print: printed in the studio of master printer Piet Clement, Amsterdam - In 1941 Paul Van Hoeydonck took an evening course in drawing at the Academy in Antwerp and later worked in the drawing studio of Jos Hendrickx. Later he studied at the Art History Institute in Antwerp and also at the Institute for Art History and Archaeology in Brussels. He was one of the Belgian-Dutch artists of the Zero movement, this is the Dutch-speaking counterpart of the German Zero group. In 1971, the astronauts of Apollo 15 put his statuette "Fallen Astronaut" on the moon. This is the only work of art in the space.