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{{short description|Flemish cartoonist, author, actor, piano tuner and piano collector}}
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| name          = Herr Seele
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| caption       = Herr Seele, behind [[Kamagurka]]
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| birth_date    = {{b-da|13 April 1959}}
| birth_place   = Torhout
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| genre         = [[Absurd humor]], [[Observational comedy]], Satire
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| notable_works = ''[[Cowboy Henk]]''
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'''Herr Seele''', the pseudonym of '''Peter Van Heirseele''' ([[Torhout]], Belgium, 13 April 1959), is a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[cartoonist]], author, actor, piano tuner and piano collector.

He is mainly known for the [[absurd humor]] comic strip ''[[Cowboy Henk]]'', for which his colleague [[Kamagurka]] writes the scripts, while he makes the drawings. The comic has been published in ''[[HUMO]]'' since 1981 with only a minor interruption from October 2011 until the spring of 2013. During this period Seele made another [[gag-a-day]] comic series ''Dikke Billie Walter''. Since the spring of 2013 ''Cowboy Henk'' appears in the magazine again.

==Biography==
Van Heirseele was born in [[Torhout]] and attended the Sint-Jozefsinstituut. When he was sixteen, he went to the [[Ghent]] Academy for the Fine Arts, where he completed his high school years and followed a year in sculpting, after which he learned to tune and repair pianos at the Ystrad Mynach School in [[Wales]].
He then went to [[Florence]], Italy, where he learned how to renovate them.

==Career==
In 1981, he began drawing ''[[Cowboy Henk]]'' with [[Kamagurka]], for the first time using the pseudonym of ''Herr Seele''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cowboyhenk.com/ |title=Official website ''Cowboy Henk'' |website=cowboyhenk.com}}</ref> Originally, the comic was intended for ''[[De Morgen|De Vooruit]]'', but they soon became an exclusive item in ''[[HUMO]]''.
''Cowboy Henk'' was published in several countries, including Brazil (in a comics magazine named ''Animal''), [[Scandinavia]] and the United States of America (''[[Raw (comics magazine)|RAW]])''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cowboyhenkcomic.blogspot.be/2012/02/raw-deal-part-one.html|title=COWBOY HENK|author=Cowboy Henk}}</ref>

In 1983, Herr Seele starts acting for television, his first show being ''Sfeervol Bullshitten'', which was written by Kamagurka.
It was followed in 1985 by a 20-part series, called ''Kamagurka en Herr Seele'', written by the duo for the Dutch [[VPRO]]. After these first successes, other shows followed like ''Johnnywood'', ''Wees Blij Met Wat Je Hebt'', ''Lava''<ref>{{IMDb title|0295111|Lava}}</ref> and ''Bob & George''. He has also made the radio show ''[[Studio Kafka]]'' with Kamagurka.

==Piano Collection==
Herr Seele owns one of the most renowned collections of early historic pianos in the world, which is stored at [[Ostend]] and contains over 200 instruments. He is also a [[piano tuner]] himself.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seele.htm?lan=dutch|title=Herr Seele|work=lambiek.net}}</ref>

==Album cover design==
He designed the cover of ''"Steelt de Schouw!" (1994)'' for Pater Moeskroen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bovenholland.nl/artiesten/bands_en_popgroepen/pater_moeskroen|title=Artiesten – Boven Holland Entertainment}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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