Klaas Verplancke

By LatAm ARTE

Klaas Verplancke was born in 1964. He studied Advertising Graphics and Photography. He began his professional career in advertising agencies and continued illustrating outside of office hours. In 1990, he decided to become a full-time illustrator. Advertising acted as a practical training ground for his new profession, teaching him to analyze issues and get a story across to the general public. In the following years he made innumerable contributions to magazines and newspapers and illustrated more or less one hundred and fifty books, At first glance, Verplancke's drawings and paintings differ greatly in appearance and execution, but they always display the qualities that characterize him as an illustrator and designer: a sense of humor that can range from mild to sardonic, a poetic imagination, a preference for illustrating abstract concepts and universal emotions, and a lateral and surreal vision of reality.