Hans Wap (Rotterdam 1943)
Lives and works in Rotterdam
He received stipends from the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, the Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst and from the Dienst Kunst en Cultuur of the municipality of Rotterdam. Published 8 collections of poems. His visual art was exhibited in many countries. For the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam and for the DDDD in The Hague he designed ten theatre sets. Since a few years 130 sprint trains of the NS run through the Dutch landscape for which Hans Wap made the drawings on the glass partitions and the design of the upholstery of the seats and benches.
About his work as a visual artist the book STILLS appeared in 1999, in 2001 Hans Wap GRAPHIC & DECORS and SCHILDERIJEN EN PASTELS appeared. PASTELS was published in 2005.
In 2007 ARTEFACTEN and in 2009 SPLENDID ISOLATION. In November 2014 SCHROOT was published (32 linos on tsunamis, car caves, earthquakes etc.etc. with poetry by 30 Dutch poets).in November 2016 DE MAN ZONDER HAAST was published,
Henk de Bont and Hans Wap have entered into a collaboration, in which Henk de Bont has set Hans Wap's lyrics to music.
As a poet he performed in Jakarta and Palembang (2006), Paramaribo (2008 and 2009) and with Poetry on the Road in Bremen and Poetry International in Rotterdam (2009).
In 2012 he gave German-language lectures at the Stadtmuseum in Borken (D) and at the Buchhändlerkeller in Berlin. In 2016 Hans Wap read his poetry at the International Poetry Festival in Marrakech (Maroc).
There appeared 8 collections of poems by Hans Wap