Marcel van der vlugt biography

The quest for beauty can be considered as the central theme of these works. Various series of photographs show wilted flowers, alluring nude or bandaged bodies and mystic landscapes.

History, CV, Resume, List of Exhibitions, Publications, Clients, Collections, Awards.

History, CV, Resume, List of Exhibitions, Publications, Clients, Collections, Awards.

Read the biography of Marcel van der Vlugt.

Marcel van der Vlugt, , The Netherlands, is a fine-art, fashion and commercial photographer based in Amsterdam.

At 22, as an assistant to photographer Manfred Vogelsänger, Van der Vlugt had already traveled around the globe twice.

Marcel van der Vlugt is a Dutch Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Their work is currently being shown at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort.

These pictures, mostly staged and composed, find their inspiration in the visual language of various media, amongst which the fashion and advertising industry. It is for the very first time that several series are presented simultaneously at an exhibition.

Beauty

Various aspects of beauty, such as beauty ideals, transitoriness and makability, are leitmotivs in Van der Vlugts work.

The floral still lives from the ‘buds' series are clear examples of this, showing us beauty manifesting itself rather unexpectedly in withered flowers. The double portraits and nudes from the series 'Before & After' refer to the cliché advertisements for beauty centers.

In the series ‘I like....', Van der Vlugts gives his models a second skin, consisting of cacao powder, salmon or cheese. This results in photographs that