Gerrit Van Gelderen

Gerrit van Gelderen (1926-1994) was a dutch born, naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, illustrator and cartoonist, who lived and worked in Ireland for a large part of his life. He is famous for his television work on Amuigh Faoin Spéir with Éamon de Buitléar.^[1] Born in Rotterdam in 1926, Gerrit was educated at the college of art in the Hague. He moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1955 to work in advertising. Some of his illustrations featured in the Farmers Journal. In the 1960's he started working with de Buitlear producing programmes for television.

He died in 1994 following a lung operation.

References

1. ↑ Éamon de Buitléar www.rte.ie