Siegfried Woldhek's photostream  

DREAMCATCHER

Siegfried Woldhek (1951) expresses his ideas in his drawings and in the organizations he helps shape.

Since 1976 Woldhek has been making literary and political portraits for leading Dutch newspapers. His work is often exhibited and is published in several books. On www.woldhek.com more than 1000 of his portraits are shown, making it probably the largest private portrait gallery of the entire Internet. For his contribution to Dutch literature he was awarded the GH 's Gravesande prize. His work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum and the Atlas van Stolk.

Woldhek worked for over 20 yrs in conservation, a.o as ceo of the Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds (1985-1990) and World Wildlife Fund-Netherlands (700.000 members,1990-1998). Until 2002 he was in charge of the Action Network for WWF-International. In 2002 HRH Prince Bernhard awarded him the Order of the Golden Ark for his contribution to conservation.

He is the initiator of NABUUR.com, an internet-based organization that enables villages around the world to work directly with committed global citizens in order to solve concrete local problems.