Milou Hermus

Milou Hermus (17 April 1947 – 11 April 2021) was a Dutch painter.
In the 1970s she became known for her 'daring' erotic illustrations for the glossy magazine "Avenue". Hermus also worked for "BIJ", the magazine of De Bijenkorf. After the death of her husband (1946-2005) she started making a series of life-size portraits of friends who had been models named "Les belles Hollandaises" (2008), including . From 2012 this series was followed by a number of life-size portraits of eighteen famous Dutch men in their shirts, entitled "Hollandse Heren" (2015), including Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Wim Crouwel, Wim Pijbes and Adriaan van Dis. The series has been exposed at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.
Hermus died on 11 April 2021, aged 73.