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J A A K<br />
D E K O N I N C K<br />
ALIAS JACK LEAROY
Published<br />
STARBROOK Airlines International<br />
Edited<br />
Heidi De Bie<br />
Photography<br />
Jaak De Koninck<br />
Lay-out<br />
Ellen Deboudt<br />
Printing<br />
Van der Poorten, Kessel-Lo<br />
Translation<br />
Personal Copy, Brussels<br />
ISBN<br />
978-90-812-3213-5<br />
First edition - Printed in Belgium<br />
Jaak De Koninck<br />
www.jaakdekoninck.be<br />
STARBROOK Airlines Chocolates<br />
www.starbrook-airlines.com<br />
© 2014 STARBROOK Airlines International<br />
No portion of this book may be reproduced<br />
by any process without the publisher’s written<br />
permission.<br />
Rechten van vertaling en reproductie voor alle<br />
landen voorbehouden. Niets uit deze uitgave mag<br />
worden verveelvuldigd en/of openbaar gemaakt,<br />
op welke wijze dan ook, zonder voorafgaande<br />
schriftelijke toestemming van de uitgevers.<br />
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1. Zegels<br />
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T h e a r t i s t<br />
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with a foreword by - met een voorwoord door<br />
Edwin Hoet<br />
Jaak De Koninck<br />
I would like to present the artwork of my friend<br />
Jaak De Koninck. I have got to know Jaak better<br />
in the past 15 years and have seen him evolve<br />
into the respected and renowned artist he is<br />
today.<br />
Jaak De Koninck is first and foremost a humble<br />
person who would rather express himself through<br />
his paintbrush. So you won’t hear him give<br />
pseudo-intellectual lectures on art, nor are you<br />
likely to see him on a popular talk show. Is it<br />
this modesty that compelled him to focus on<br />
miniature art for such a long time? His stamps<br />
are only a few square centimetres large, yet Jaak<br />
managed to offer us a glimpse into his imaginary<br />
world, his ‘STARBROOK Airlines’ world.<br />
In this work, he not only demonstrates his talent<br />
as a miniaturist, linked to the tradition of Flemish<br />
miniature art, but also proves that he is absolutely<br />
passionate about calligraphy. In his later work, he<br />
continues to use calligraphy and stamps with the<br />
result that every painting by Jaak becomes a<br />
genuine ‘De Koninck’, stamped to share with the<br />
outside world.<br />
Jaak is undoubtedly one of today’s most<br />
accomplished watercolour artists. He has mastered<br />
this extremely difficult technique, which requires<br />
great concentration and a steady hand, like no<br />
other. Watercolour is also the ideal medium to<br />
render the nostalgic atmosphere and the poetic<br />
environment that characterise Jaak’s world.<br />
Jaak De Koninck<br />
Graag stel ik u het werk van mijn vriend Jaak<br />
De Koninck voor. De laatste 15 jaar heb ik Jaak<br />
beter leren kennen en zien evolueren tot de<br />
gerespecteerde en bekende kunstenaar die hij<br />
vandaag is.<br />
Jaak De Koninck is in de eerste plaats een<br />
bescheiden persoon, die het liefst zijn penseel laat<br />
spreken. U zult hem dus geen pseudo-intellectuele<br />
toespraken horen geven over kunst en ook de<br />
populaire praatprogramma’s mijdt hij liever. Is het<br />
door die bescheidenheid dat hij zich zo lang heeft<br />
toegespitst op miniatuurkunst? Op die enkele<br />
vierkante centimeter van zijn postzegels, slaagde<br />
Jaak erin om ons een impressie te geven van<br />
zijn imaginaire wereld, zijn ‘STARBROOK Airlines’<br />
wereld.<br />
In dit werk toonde hij niet alleen zijn talent als<br />
miniaturist, aanknopend bij de traditie van onze<br />
Vlaamse miniatuurkunst, maar hij bewees ook<br />
uiterst bedreven te zijn in de kalligrafie. In zijn<br />
latere werk blijft hij de kalligrafie en stempels<br />
gebruiken, waardoor elk schilderij van Jaak een<br />
echte ‘De Koninck’ wordt. Afgestempeld om met<br />
de buitenwereld te delen.<br />
Jaak is ongetwijfeld een van de bekwaamste<br />
aquarellisten van het moment. Als geen ander<br />
beheerst hij deze uiterst moeilijke techniek, die<br />
een grote concentratie en een trefzekere hand<br />
vereist. Aquarel is een ideale techniek om de<br />
nostalgische sfeer en de poëtische leefwereld van<br />
Jaak weer te geven.<br />
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In Jaak’s subsequent work one can distinguish<br />
two important changes: 1. from small to large<br />
(to very large even – just remember his 12m²<br />
canvases at the Zaventem Airport) and 2. the<br />
use of different techniques such as oil on canvas<br />
and, more recently, marouflage.<br />
You will find here a selection of these three<br />
techniques. It’s amazing how Jaak has managed to<br />
transfer the characteristic, intimate atmosphere<br />
of his miniature watercolours onto large oil<br />
canvases. And here too he reveals himself as a<br />
true artist who moves us and takes us by the hand<br />
into his wonderful, boyish world of planes, ships,<br />
cars and their respective hangars, shipyards and<br />
garages… sometimes, but not always, populated<br />
with beautiful, inaccessible women.<br />
Through his own personal style, Jaak De Koninck<br />
has claimed a place among our figurative arts.<br />
And although no artist likes to be compared<br />
to another artist, there are several elements in<br />
his work that remind us of artists such as Paul<br />
Delvaux and Edgar Hopper. I do hope Jaak won’t<br />
mind my comparing him to them, for this actually<br />
explains – at least in part – the national and<br />
international recognition of his work – work which<br />
has meanwhile found its way into major private<br />
collections.<br />
Over the past ten-odd years, Jaak has also<br />
been drawing and designing the packaging for<br />
an exclusive chocolate brand which is being sold<br />
world-wide under the name ‘STARBROOK Airlines’.<br />
This means Jaak is also the most copied living<br />
artist. A portrait of Jaak De Koninck would<br />
however be incomplete without a mention of his<br />
wife and lifelong partner, Heidi De Bie. They work<br />
together in true symbiosis, inspire each other and<br />
carry on developing STARBROOK Airlines together,<br />
both on an artistic and a business level. Jaak’s<br />
dream world has become real!<br />
Edwin Hoet, friend of Jaak’s<br />
In het verdere werk van Jaak kunnen we 2<br />
belangrijke evoluties onderscheiden: 1. van klein<br />
naar groot (tot zelfs heel groot, denk maar<br />
aan zijn monumentale doeken van 12m² op de<br />
luchthaven van Zaventem) en 2. het gebruik van<br />
andere technieken, zoals olie op doek en meer<br />
recentelijk marouflage.<br />
U vindt hier een selectie van deze 3 technieken.<br />
Het is bewonderenswaardig hoe Jaak erin<br />
geslaagd is om de typische, intieme sfeer van zijn<br />
miniatuuraquarellen over te brengen naar grote<br />
olieverfdoeken. Ook hier toont hij zich een ware<br />
kunstenaar, die ons raakt en meeneemt naar zijn<br />
wondere, jongensachtige wereld van vliegtuigen,<br />
boten, auto’s en de bijhorende hangars, scheepswerven<br />
en garages. Al dan niet bevolkt door<br />
mooie, onbereikbare vrouwen.<br />
Jaak De Koninck heeft met zijn eigen stijl een<br />
plek verworven binnen onze figuratieve kunst. En<br />
hoewel een kunstenaar nooit graag vergeleken<br />
wordt met andere kunstenaars, doen verschillende<br />
elementen van zijn werk denken aan kunstenaars<br />
als Paul Delvaux en Edgar Hopper. Hopelijk neemt<br />
Jaak me die vergelijking niet kwalijk. Het verklaart<br />
immers deels de nationale en internationale<br />
erkenning voor zijn werk, dat inmiddels een plek<br />
heeft gevonden in belangrijke privécollecties.<br />
Jaak tekent en ontwerpt ook al een tiental jaar de<br />
verpakkingen van een exclusieve chocoladelijn, die<br />
onder de naam ‘STARBROOK Airlines’ wereldwijd<br />
verkocht wordt. Jaak is dan ook de meest<br />
gereproduceerde levende kunstenaar. Een beeld<br />
schetsen van Jaak De Koninck blijft natuurlijk<br />
onvolledig als we zijn vrouw en levenspartner,<br />
Heidi De Bie, niet zouden vermelden. In een ware<br />
symbiose werken ze samen, inspireren ze elkaar<br />
en bouwen ze samen, zowel artistiek als zakelijk,<br />
STARBROOK Airlines verder uit. De droomwereld<br />
van Jaak is werkelijkheid geworden!<br />
Edwin Hoet, vriend van Jaak<br />
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BIOGRAPHY<br />
1950<br />
1958 – 1965<br />
1965 – 1970<br />
1970 – 1971<br />
1971<br />
1984<br />
1991<br />
1998<br />
2014<br />
Jan-Baptist De Koninck – Leuven – 20 March<br />
The “Expo ’58” is a dream world for young Jaak. Passionate about all things flying, his<br />
fascination with aviation grows as he’s lying on the grass next to the runway.<br />
School years<br />
Military service with the Belgian Navy?!<br />
Brussels, first job as a Technical Engineer… Evening classes in watercolour and Sunday<br />
school. Jaak’s imaginary airline company “STARBROOK Airlines” materialises.<br />
First exhibition at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels.<br />
Jaak becomes a full-time artist, creates his own PLC and bids his farewell to Brussels.<br />
Leuven becomes his new home base. In addition to painting, he also designs his own<br />
furniture line inspired by airplane shapes.<br />
Jaak meets Patrick Gilis, an entrepreneur in search of a new corporate image for a<br />
chocolate brand. The chocolate brand “STARBROOK Airlines BELGIAN CHOCOLATES”, the<br />
result of their collaboration, provides Jaak with an international forum.<br />
Watercolour, oil and marouflage are the three main techniques Jaak uses to develop his<br />
dream world. Postage stamps have increased in size and the chocolate wrappings are<br />
spreading throughout the world.<br />
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EXHIBITIONS<br />
1984<br />
1984<br />
1986<br />
1986<br />
1989<br />
1991<br />
1992<br />
1992<br />
1995<br />
1996<br />
1997<br />
1999<br />
2003<br />
2004<br />
2005<br />
2008<br />
2008<br />
2012<br />
Solo exhibition at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels<br />
Solo exhibition at the Fnac in Brussels<br />
Solo exhibition at the POLYNERO Gallery / Dorian van der Brempt – Turnhout<br />
Mallemunt Brussel – installation and performance on the Muntplein/Place de la Monnaie<br />
Solo exhibition at the V.I.P. Lounge in Brussels Airport, ATI-travel<br />
Installation “THE WHISPERING LADY” for the newspaper “DE MORGEN” Sfinks-festival in<br />
Boechout<br />
Exhibition of the furniture line “STARBROOK Airlines” at Interieur Kortrijk<br />
Group exhibition at DOUAI l’ HIPPODROME<br />
Brussels Airport commissions 12 pieces of 4m x 3m<br />
LINEART exhibition in Ghent<br />
Solo exhibition at the “LUC PIETERS ART GALERY” in Knokke<br />
Solo exhibition at the “LUC PIETERS ART GALERY” in Knokke<br />
Millionaires Fair in Amsterdam<br />
Solo exhibition at Eurocontrol in Maastricht<br />
TFWA Fair at the PALAIS des FESTIVALS in Cannes<br />
“HANGAR311” solo exhibition in Mechelen<br />
Solo exhibition at the KBC Leuven Ladeuze<br />
“HANGAR311” solo exhibition in Mechelen<br />
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COMMISSIONS<br />
TNT Brucargo<br />
TNT, Liège<br />
ICOS Vision, Haasrode<br />
INDICATOR Publishers, Leuven<br />
HARLEY DAVIDSON, Amsterdam<br />
BNP Paris-Bas, Brussels<br />
BOUWWERKEN JACOBS, Opglabeek<br />
CHRIS STOCKX Architect, Herent<br />
DELICATESSA, Geel<br />
BIAC, Brussels Airport<br />
TELEVISION<br />
BRT Eiland<br />
BRT Kunstzaken<br />
RTB Cargo de Nuit<br />
RTB Interieur Nuit<br />
BRT Ziggurat<br />
Commercial video made by MAD Faculty - Daan De Smedt<br />
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STARBROOK Airlines - THE STORY<br />
1918<br />
1927<br />
1929<br />
1931<br />
1948<br />
1958<br />
1959<br />
The end of World War I.<br />
Jan-Baptist De Koninck, organ builder and player, is a soldier on the IJzer river. He accompanies<br />
local fishermen at sea and in exchange for fish, entertains the men on board playing his organ.<br />
After the ship capsizes, Jan Baptist is saved by Irish fishermen and is taken to Portsmouth. The<br />
castaway suffers serious injuries to his left hand. He is then transferred to a convent. Stephany,<br />
a young nurse, takes care of Jan-Baptist and captures his heart. Both emigrate to America.<br />
Charles L., seriously wounded after a plane crash, is saved by Stephany’s healing hands.<br />
As a token of gratitude, Charles L. flies both of them to Santa Barbara. Jan-Baptist translates<br />
his name into French, Le Roi. The Americans turn it into “Learoy”.<br />
Stephany gives birth to twins, Emile and Jack. Unfortunately, the young mother dies two days<br />
after the birth.<br />
Jan-Baptist buys an old plane, a Curtiss Jenny, and starts flying on assignment for the US<br />
Airmail Services. In his free time, he works on his invention, the first electric music machine -<br />
the jukebox. He patents his invention. The twins grow up and learn to fly at a very young age.<br />
They dream of starting their own airline - STARBROOK Airlines.<br />
After an unfortunate encounter with a bull upon landing, Jan-Baptist dies of wounds to his lower<br />
abdomen. Emile and Jack inherit the old biplane and the patent to the jukebox.<br />
DEC (Detroit Electric Company) shows great interest and buys the patent. With this money, the<br />
boys buy an old DC3 (C47 military transport). After adjustments to the interior, the twins are<br />
asked to fly for TWA and Pan Am.<br />
Emile and Jack visit the World Expo in Brussels. In order to earn some money, they offer public<br />
helicopter tours above Brussels and surroundings. An Algerian businessman hires them both for<br />
a suspicious flight to Algeria. Due to technical problems, they crash in the Sahara. Emile dies<br />
immediately. Jack survives and is cared for by a Berber.<br />
Jack returns to Santa Barbara and restarts the activities of STARBROOK Airlines. STARBROOK<br />
Airlines takes to the skies once again.<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
m i n i a t u r e s<br />
Watercolours: Winsor & Newton<br />
Paper: Velin D’Arches 220 gsm<br />
Tap water<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Sterrebeek luchtpost 4 X 3 cm<br />
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Sterrebeek luchtpost 4 X 3 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Sterrebeek luchtpost 4 X 3 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Vogels van het land 2.7 X 3.8 cm<br />
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Vogels van het land 2.7 X 3.8 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Vruchten van het land 20 X 15 cm<br />
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Verboden vrucht 15 X 15 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Frituur 2.7 X 4 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Moaring at Lakehurst 27 X 18.5 cm<br />
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Ballonluchtpost 4.7 X 2.7 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Brieven uit Latem 20 X 29 cm<br />
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Before Pearl Harbor 4 X 6 cm<br />
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Sterrebeach hydroport 3 X 3 cm<br />
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Sterrebeach hydroport 5.2 X 3 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Naspoelcentrum 15 X 8 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
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Tarmac 16 X 27 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Duivenmelk 9 X 8.5 cm<br />
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Pigeon noir 8 X 11 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
l a r g e s i z e s<br />
Watercolours: Winsor & Newton<br />
Paper: Velin D’Arches 220 gsm<br />
Tap water<br />
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Air hostess 50 X 37 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Brigitte in Congo 50 X 37 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
W. 5002.7071 50 X 37 cm<br />
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Diane prend l’avion 50 X 37 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Heaven in a suitcase 2 75 X 53 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Previous page: Blue 58 75 X 53 cm<br />
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Choco l’art 20 X 30 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Whispering lady 40 X 30 cm<br />
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Casablanca fuel 40 X 30 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Previous page: Love this life of Luxury 75 X 53 cm<br />
This page: Ladies in white 75 X 53 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Beyond time 2 37 X 50 cm<br />
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Beyond time 3 37 X 50 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
Previous page: Winging the skyline 75 X 53 cm<br />
This page: Karmann Ghia 75 X 53 cm<br />
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Nr. 2 for shells 75 X 53 cm<br />
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W a t e r c o l o u r<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
Linen canvas primed with rabbit skin glue<br />
Oils: Schmincke<br />
Bleached oil<br />
Turpentine<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
DC 3 180 X 120 cm<br />
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Evelyn prend l’avion 180 X 120 cm<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
The jury 250 X 180 cm<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
Angela mirror 60 X 80 cm<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
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O i l p a i n t<br />
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M a r o u f l a g e<br />
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M a r o u f l a g e<br />
Astrid prend l’avion 80 X 80 cm<br />
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M a r o u f l a g e<br />
Conny in New York 100 X 80 cm<br />
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A p p l i e d a r t s<br />
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A p p l i e d a r t s<br />
Chocolate boxes<br />
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The end 6 X 5 cm / TB. 4102.80.11<br />
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