ABOUT BREVET

Former Three Michelin starred Head-Chef at Manoir Restaurant Inter Scaldes. Since Claudia and Jannis sold their restaurant in September 2023, Jannis can be found in his atelier. 

Already at a young age Jannis was drawing/painting figurative and portrait. The love for cooking was greater at that time and he continued his way to the cook’s school. Due to his demanding work as a kitchen chef and later his own restaurant business, Jannis lacked time and for a long time there were no works from his hand. In 2015, he was given the space to take up his passion for painting again. He is an inspired minimalist artist. His motto “Nothing is as difficult as simple cooking” and “the art of leaving things out”, also got priority in his artworks. With fairly simple materials, such as cardboard, nails, rope, eggshells and corten steel, he makes unusual creations and visual art in addition to oil paintings. His work is exhibited in The Netherlands, Hotel-Manoir Inter Scaldes in Kruiningen.

What fascinates Jannis is the synesthesia between art and cooking; the connection between perceptions and representations from different senses.

Jannis is admirably averse to trends. However, you cannot just call him traditional because he remains true to his own light-hearted, refined, yet original way of cooking. He cooks directly, purely and transparently. A balanced composition is the result of technique, creativity and product knowledge’. This principle is also reflected in his works of art.