Gerrit Greve

Gerrit Greve (1948- ) was born in Indonesia to second-generation Dutch colonials. His family subsequently moved to the Netherlands and later immigrated to the United States. For the past 40 years, Greve has been a professional fine artist (painter). Gerrit Greve’s paintings have been featured in hundreds of galleries both in the United States and abroad. His work has received international acclaim, and has been collected and featured by a number of museums. Greve’s work has been featured in thousands of worldwide publications including TIME magazine. Greve has also been the subject of several television documentaries, including the Emmy Award–winning PBS series “Artists in Residence,” and his painting of Luciano Pavarotti is featured on Pavarotti’s album, “Verismo Arias”. Greve is additionally an adjunct professor of art history and is the founder-director of the highly successful philanthropic program, “Arts for Healing”. Greve’s painting “Northwest Territory” is included with other painting masterpieces spanning the history of painting in the book “1001 Paintings - You Must See Before You Die”, published in 2007 by Rizzoli and distributed worldwide. Greve is one of only about 100 living artists worldwide included in the book. http://gerritgreve.co/