Jan Vanhellemont
Biography
Jan Vanhellemont (°1952) from Leuven, Belgium, is the webmaster of this site.
In 1972, he graduated from the Sint-Lukas Academy in Brussels. Still as a student, he won the Audience Award at the 10th International Cartoon Contest of the Humorfestival in Knokke-Heist in 1971, so after his studies he was immediately launched as a cartoonist and designer of posters and record sleeves. However, since he did not like the artistic circles, he went studying social sciences and started working in Human Resources for forty years, first as a manager in various companies, later as a lecturer in a master's degree programme.
Despite his career switch, he continued to make drawings and paintings. When he created the Master and Margarita website in 2006, he already had the idea of making illustrations for each chapter of the novel. However, it only became real in 2020, when he published the Annotations of this website in book form on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the novel. In the electronic versions of the book you will find the illustrations in colour, in the paperback version you will find black and white prints.
Jan Vanhellemont
Illustrations
Use the arrow below to watch some illustrations made by Jan Vanhellemont.
Limited edition facsimile print
We offer in our web shop a set containing facsimile prints of 10 illustrations selected by us. A limited edition of 20 sets was printed, numbered and signed by the artist.
The 230x165 mm (6.5x9.1 in) illustrations will be printed on 180 grams A4 granulated drawing paper of 297x210 mm (11.7x8.3 in).
A certificate of authenticity is supplied with each set..
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