New Renaissance Artist Henk Fakkeldij
Stimulating the senses, spoiling the mind.
The hand of my father. First painting finished in 2025.
My father lost his hand due to an exploding hand-grenade on March 14, 1946 while serving the army in Hulten, when young soldiers had to clean the ammunition of WOII without any protection or instructions. He saved the lives of everyone who was set to work there. He never got any credits.
May be I should change the projects-name just onto The Hand. New painting. Acrylic on Masonite. Unfinished
Starting a new painting. This was the left hand of my father. Still in progress!
Finally getting somewhere; found historical pics of the place where the accident happend. As the village Hulten was seriously bombed, a lot of ammunition must have been lying around there.
I found the blog of Perry Vermeulen, who writes about this area and the war time. I sent him him a mail..
Working on this project about the hand of my father blown away by a grenade right after the war. While cleaning the woods with other young solders. Without any protection or instructions by the Royal Army.
This is one of his old hands that he had kept in his storage.