This year, painter, actor, musician and poet Herman Brood would have turned 75 and it marks twenty years since he ended his life. In his memory, the Royal Dutch Mint is launching three exclusive issues in collaboration with the Brood family. In addition, the KNM has developed an augmented reality (AR) experience together with VR Owl, with which you can bring the works of Brood into your home! Read more below.
Herman Brood's work The Beat Goes On is central to the AR experience and the Herman Brood issues of the Royal Dutch Mint. Even though Brood is no longer alive, his legacy lives on: the beat goes on. Brood always had the dream that his art would hang in every living room in the Netherlands. With the development of the AR experience, this dream becomes true. The AR experience can be used by anyone with a smartphone via the web link brood75.nl. Via camera, the experience places The Beat Goes On and pen drawings selected by Xandra Brood in the space in which you are located.Herman Brood
Brood started making music and drawings from an early age. After high school he went to the Art Academy in Arnhem. He played in various bands, with the greatest success being the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance and the hit Saturday Night. With his art Brood was inspired by the Cobra tradition: an international movement of young, progressive artists in the period 1848-1951. Brood's style is characterized by large canvases with bright colours made with aerosol paint. Brood was also known among the Dutch public as the embodiment of the credo “sex, drugs and rock 'n roll”. On 11 July 2001, Brood ended his life.
Design and Mintage
The Royal Dutch Mint mints three issues in honour of Brood's 75th birthday: an issue in coincard and a silver issue with colour, packed in a thematic case including a Certificate of Authenticity. In addition, an extra-large silver issue is minted, with a diameter of 60 mm. This issue is enamelled by hand by the silversmiths of the Royal Dutch Mint and has a very limited mintage of 75 pieces, which symbolises the 75th birthday of Brood. In addition to the work The Beat Goes On, which is the common thread in the Herman Brood issues, the obverse of each Herman Brood issue puts a different work of art in the spotlight. The reverse shows the artist himself with his well-known signature “brood”. Check out the issues on our website!