2024

Entering the Zone

winner: Best Thriller Short  06-2024 Hollywood International Golden Age

Sleep among Wolves

winner: Best Short Film   07-2024 Dublin Movie Awards  Ireland

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2023

Prizes new Strehmann-Heerdink short films

Some Didn’t Make It – winner Best Actor: LA Independent Film Channel Festival, USA (Sept. 2023) & Cannes Arts Film Fest, France (Nov. 2023)

winner Original Score: Sydney Indie Short Festival, Australia (Nov. 2023) & Berlin Shorts Award, Germany (Nov. 2023)

Cage of Memories – winner Best Composer:  Vegas Shorts Festival 18th edition & winner Best Cinematography: Florida Shorts Festival (Summer 2023)

Am I the only one? – winner Best Cinematography:  Vegas Shorts Festival, USA (18th edit) & California Indies, USA (aug 2023) 

Best International Narrative Short: L.A. Sun Film Fest, USA  (2023)

A Closer Look Inside Maurice Heerdink – 12 part series in which Maurice discusses his works. In VIDEOS

Commissions and sales

2022

The start of Strehmann-Heerdink short films

The Price Of Art – winner Best Cinematography: Canadian Couch Film Festival (2022).

The Pyramid Dogma – winner Best Horror Film: Canadian Cinematography Awards (dec 2022)

Property For Sale – winner Original Score: Venice L.A. Festival, USA  2023 & Best Actress: San Diego International Film Awards, USA  (winter 2022)

Commissions and sales

2021

New recording facillities for Maurice Magic Stories

Strehmann music-video by Strehmann Heerdink

2020

Start of Maurice Magic Stories on YouTube – Short stories written, read and illustrated by Maurice Heerdink

Start political illustrations for the magazine Pensioenbelangen

Interview with DDR painter Harald Schulze (in German)

spring:
2020 02 20 – Start of a new chapter.

2019
360° Visual Tour: Garten der Welt, Berlin
Docu: Gedenkstätte Seelower Höhe
Image film: Airport Neuhardenberg
Image film: Waldhotel
Commercial: Petits Soleils
Short Film: They Are Here
Drone film: Architecture
Drone film: Chemiewerk
Drone film: The Oderbruch

March:
New Maurice Heerdink website by Strehmann-Heerdink

Radio guest in “Uit De Kast,” Maurice talks about his career and working with Strehmann. Listen here. (in Dutch)

2018

Authumn:
Exhibition “De Gouden Eeuw van de Vliet” (Museum Swaensteyn Voorburg)

Summer:
Group exhibition “Art With Pride” – Zandvoort’s Museum

June:
Pink Terrorists Radio interview about “Art With Pride” expo & Strehmann – listen here (in Dutch)

Start of the creative cooperation with Ronny Strehmann

Spring:
Travel to Mexico

2017

August / November:
Lecture in “Sociëteit De Witte” / Jury member in “Sociëteit De Witte”

Several work publications,
Film commissions: theatre and music promos

Spring:
Travel to Malta – checking out the largest Caravaggio painting

2016

Contribution to the Mathilde Willink book by Lisette de Zoete

september 2016 – january 2017

Maurice Heerdink show in Museum Soest (more on the video page)

New projects & new techniques

Spring:
Travel to Andalusia

2015

Autumn:
Travel to Barcelona

THE ART OF MAURICE HEERDINK book is internationally available.
Interview & booksigning – Amsterdam bookstore Vrolijk
Guest in Pink Terrorists Radio Amsterdam
(click to listen, in Dutch)

Spring:
Travel to BRNO and Auschwitz

2014

Great international book reviews

Publication of the book THE ART OF MAURICE HEERDINK

Autumn:
Travel to Papua New Guinea and the Gororka Sing Sing Dance Festival

Workshops and some new projects

Travel to Berlin

Spring:
Travel to Turkey

2013

Autumn:
Travel to Peru

Just funny:
When my friend Peter Devers tried to get Liza Minnelli to sign a photo of a very old portrait I made of her she signed a studio photo of herself and confiscated my portrait for her scrapbook! Doesn’t the woman have taste.

Spring:
Travel to Switzerland

2012

A personal year.

2011
Marne van Opstal (NDT) portrait exhibited at the Miljonair Fair
Travel to Estonia
Children books week 2011: Superheroes
Summer: Amsterdam exhibition

Travel to Egypt

2010

Since June 2010 I am no longer a resident of The Hague but live very close by. All in all, after 34 years, it was a intense happening, but pleasing.

Childrens book week

2009

Travel to Istanbul and to Mexico-Belize-Guatemala

2008

A very busy year personally with funny commissions, new works and Asia travel.

2007

Some very interesting sales to the States, several commissions and workshops.

Rocio Jurado commission
Louis Bourbon a French commisssion
2006

Aug 12th – Sept 17th:
Second exhibition Westfries Museum in Hoorn

IN HET LICHT VAN DE SCHIJNWERPER (In The Spotlight)
Opening: Sasha Bulthuis – Guest of honor: Ellen Vogel

June:
Lecture on “Why are there no drawings by Carravaggio, Vermeer and Van Hals?”

January – February:
Several workshops

2005

Sept 3rd – Oct 16th:
First exhibition at Westfries Museum in Hoorn, FOREIGN CULTURES AND VOC

Painting more THEATER CELEBRITIES:
Johnny Kraaijkamp sr, Willem Nijholt, Aus Greidanus jr

April:
Checking out a real master: Caravaggio at the National Gallery in London.

2004

Started the series DUTCH THEATER CELEBRITIES portraying Ellen Vogel and Jenny Arean.

Opening exhibition of the Sandberg Gallery (quite a messy experience)

2003

Lectures on painting and drawing

2002

Several of my works were shown in MATHILDE WILLINK SUPERPOES. A documentary by Jasmina Fekovic and Eddie van der Velden (shown at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and on television: Uur van de Wolf)

French book cover

2001

Working on The Falconer (New York commission) and Prometheus

2000

Collaboration talks with filmdirector / -critic of Vrij Nederland Ab van Ieperen about his upcoming movie drama (project cancelled)

1999

Groupexhibition: The Jesus Mystery – Travel to Curaçao

1998

TV-documentary: The Playful Eroticism of Maurice Heerdink

Exhibition in Amsterdam during Gay Games

1996–1997

Joop van Loon’s Mathilde Willink book presentation in Studio Ans Markus

f.l.t.r: Painter Adrian Stahlecker, Pistolen Paultje, Painter Astrid Engels, Chanteuse Marjol Flore, Theo Sijthoff, Painter Ans Markus and Maurice Heerdink round his painting “Mathilde” in Studio Ans Markus. Amsterdam 14-6-1997 (photo: uitgeverij De Vleermuis)

1996

First business-commission: Portrait of 27 board members

1995
Travel to Mexico
1994
Groupexhibition in Pulchri Studio, The Hague
1993

Short film: 25 Years Houses – a comedy

1992

Role as a gangsterboss in the short movie “Dick Bos komt los”

1990–1997

Illustrating over 80 books and 15 magazines

1989
Travels to Berlin and Switzerland
1987

Two month travelling through Central America checking out La Routa Maya

1986
Travel to New York
1985

Travels to Canada and Paris

1984–1986

Performances with Bertold Brecht songs

1978–1989

Five short movies (with Ed van der Kooy):

a) Love Story, comedy

b) Angst, psychological drama

c) Tryptich, three horrorstories

c) Lost in Horrorland, four horrorstories

d) Garbage, horror

1981
Graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Haque
1977

Art Academy filmproject: Terschelling

1976
First exhibition
1973

First newspaper publication

1955

Born August the 12th in the Netherlands