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Rietveld Academy
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The academy was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History In 1924, the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (Institute for Arts and Crafts Education) was founded by merging three art schools.Cyril Witte,Gerrit Rietveld Academie (in Dutch), ARCAM. Retrieved 20 April 2022. From 1939 to 1960, education was strongly influenced by the functionalist and socially critical ideas of De Stijl and the Bauhaus, partly due to the role of the socialist architect Mart Stam as director of education. In 1966, the Rietveld Building designed by Gerrit Rietveld was completed. That year, the school was renamed to Gerrit Rietveld Academie, as a tribute to Gerrit Rietveld, who had died in 1964. Since the 1960s and especially the 1970s, the role and influence of autonomous visual art and individual expression have grown in impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Academy
An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-secondary, or undergraduate programs, and can also offer a broad-based range of programs (such as the liberal arts and sciences). There have been six major periods of art school curricula,Houghton, Nicholas. “Six into One: The Contradictory Art School Curriculum and How It Came About.” ''International Journal of Art & Design Education'', vol. 35, no. 1, Feb. 2016, pp. 107–120. and each one has had its own hand in developing modern institutions worldwide throughout all levels of education. Art schools also teach a variety of non-academic skills to many students. History There have been six definitive curricula throughout the history of art schools. These are "apprentice, academic, formalist, expressive, conceptual, and professional". Each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuidas
The Zuidas (literally ''South Axis'' in Dutch) is a rapidly developing business district in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Zuidas is also known as the 'Financial Mile'. It lies between the rivers Amstel and ''Schinkel'' along the ringway A10. The greatest influences for the development of the Zuidas are La Défense in Paris and Canary Wharf in London. In size it can best be compared with the Noordruimte/Espace Nord in Brussels. In the future, the local Amsterdam Zuid railway station is planned to become the second main station in Amsterdam. It is expected to become the fifth busiest passenger station in the Netherlands, with connections to Schiphol Airport, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris via the Thalys, a high-speed rail. It will also connect to the German high-speed network, the ICE, via Utrecht and Arnhem. The journey from the Zuidas to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol takes approximately 8 minutes. Future development could include an underground line dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjan Van Aubel
Marjan van Aubel (born in 1985) is a Dutch solar designer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Education Van Aubel graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy with a BA DesignLAB in 2009, and in 2012 gained an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London. Career and awards Most of van Aubel's work involves incorporating solar cells into furniture, windows, and other objects. She has also designed a cover to maximize the surface area and thus the yield of a solar panel. Her solar-powered table charger, ''Current Table'', was included in the 2015 Design Museum Designs of the Year exhibition in London. In 2016 she won the 2015 ''Radicale Vernieuwer'' (radical renewer) award from the Dutch newspaper ''Vrij Nederland'' and also the Innovation in Product Design award at the first ''Wired'' Audi Innovation Awards, for ''Current Window'', a stained glass window incorporating dye-sensitized solar cells. In 2017 she was one of three winners of the Designer of the Future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Ammerlaan
Frank Ammerlaan (born 1979 in Sassenheim) is a Dutch artist who lives and works in London. Biography Ammerlaan graduated as an independent artist from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2007. In 2012 he graduated in fine art at the Royal College of Art in London with paintings, sculptures and photography. For his graduation show Ammerlaan won ''The Land Securities Studio Award''. In 2012 he received the ''Royal Award for Painting'', which is handed to the most promising young Dutch painter of that year. From 2012, Ammerlaan also makes video artbr>Ammerlaan experiments with unusual materials, like galvanised and passivated metals and pulverized meteoritHe exhibited in several museums and galleries in the Netherlands and abroa Ammerlaan is one of the founders of the exhibition spaces ''Horse Move Project Space'' (2004) and ''De Service Garage'' (2007), both situated in Amsterdam. Currently ''De Service Garage'' is giving space to seven artists and is run by Benjamin Roth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Van Der Waal
Henk van der Waal (born 1960) is a Dutch poet. Early life Van der Waal studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Career Van der Waal has worked as a journalist, a translator and as a teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In 1996, he won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for his debut poetry collection ''De windsels van de sfinx'' (1995). His second poetry collection ''Schuldsanering'' (2000) was nominated for the Paul Snoek-poëzieprijs. He was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs in 2004 for his poetry collection ''De aantochtster'' (2003). In 2012, he won the Ida Gerhardt Poëzieprijs for his poetry collection ''Zelf worden''. The collection was also nominated for the VSB-Poëzieprijs. Van der Waal and Erik Lindner wrote the book ''De kunst van het dichten'', a collection of essays and conversations with other poets, including Nachoem Wijnberg, Anneke Brassinga and Anne Vegter. Van der Waal also published ''Liefdesgeschiedenissen'' in 1991, a Dutch translati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybren Valkema
Sybren Valkema (1916–1996) was a Dutch glass artist and teacher, and founder of the European Studio Glass Movement, also known as VRIJ GLAS (Free Glass). Background and education Sybren Valkema was raised in an anthroposophic, artistic and politically left-wing environment, his parents were both cultural and socially engaged. His decision to teach was made early, and he was trained at modern educational institutions. After receiving his teaching certificate, Valkema studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague to become a drawing teacher. Several years later he took over from Paul Schuitema in the department of advertising design evening classes (The Sybren Valkema Archive and The Netherlands Institute for Art History). Drawing and aesthetic design teacher In 1943 he became drawing instructor for the introductory year at IvKNO, Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (later renamed Gerrit Rietveld Academie), where the director, architect Mart Stam, strived for a progressive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Der Vaart (ceramist)
Johannes Jacobus (Jan) van der Vaart (The Hague, 17 October 1931 – Leiden, 8 November 2000) was an influential Dutch ceramicist from the 20th century, known as founder of the abstract-geometric ceramics in the Netherlands. One of the key concepts in his work was the reintroduction of the pyramid or tulips tower, a specific type of tulip vase, from the 16th century in his own constructivist form. Biography Early life and early career Van der Vaart is autodidact, and took a pottery class for amateurs at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from Just van Deventer and Theo Dobbelman. In the 1950s he started working as a ceramicist in The Hague. In 1958 Van der Vaart was cofounder of the artist collective ''Groep 58'' of seven young artists, five painters, a sculptor and a ceramicist. They wanted to oppose abstract art, in favor of realistic work. With one of the artists, Herman Gordijn, he had one of his first exhibitions in the Haagse Kunstkring, where Van der Vaart had become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Unger
Gerard Unger (22 January 1942 – 23 November 2018) was a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963–67, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer. A long-time guest lecturer at the University of Reading, he mentored many modern typeface designers. He lived and worked in Bussum, Netherlands. Work Unger developed many typefaces over the years, of which several specially developed for newspapers (usually typefaces with a large x-height and large inner counters), such as Swift, Gulliver, Coranto and Vesta. He also developed designs for magazines, coins, books, logos and stamps. A large number of Unger's typefaces are available from Linotype and the Dutch Type Library; his more recent faces are also available through the foundry Type Together. He released new work on his own website from 1995. Unger designed typefaces for the signage systems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Trumpie
Henk Trumpie (born The Hague, 8 August 1937) was a Dutch ceramist and sculptor. Life and work Born in The Hague, Trumpie studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and took glaze lessons at the Porceleyne Fles pottery in Delft, where he was involved in the production of ceramic works for other artists, such as Karel Appel. In 1969, he and Jacques van Gaalen founded the ceramics studio Struktuur 68. Gwen Heeney (2003) recalled, that "the studio has applied itself to the manufacturing of large-scale ceramic sculpture in collaboration with many international artists (many of whom have been unfamiliar with ceramics)". In 1968, they started working with the CoBrA group. Over the years, they "completed around 1000 successful commissions in collaboration with more than 200 national and international artists". In 1980, Trumpie started as lecturer at the Rietveld Academy, beside Jan van der Vaart, as successor to Emmy van Deventer, which became "an enormous stimulus for the cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sierhuis
Jan Sierhuis is a painter, born in 1928, in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ..., Netherlands. Retrieved March 3, 2011 References 1928 births Living people Dutch painters Dut ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Majoor
Martin Majoor (born 14 October 1960) is a Dutch type designer and graphic designer. As of 2006, he had worked since 1997 in both Arnhem, Netherlands, and Warsaw, Poland. Biography Early life Majoor was born in 1960 in the town of Baarn, in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Education Majoor enrolled at the then (Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem), now part of ArtEZ University of the Arts, in 1980. He graduated in 1986. For a student placement, Majoor went to URW Type Foundry in 1984. He used their Ikarus system to design a typeface named , which was never released. Early work In 1986, Majoor joined the research department of Océ and investigated fonts for use on computer monitors. He also researched fonts for laser printing for Bitstream. In 1988, Majoor became a graphic designer for the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, where he designed concert programmes. Frustration with limited availability of professional fonts on the institution's Macintosh computers led him to develop his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Elburg
Joannes Gommert Elburg, writing as Jan "the man" G. Elburg (born Wemeldinge, 30 November 1919 – died Amsterdam, 13 August 1992) was a Dutch poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1976 Constantijn Huygens Prize. Bibliography *1943 - Serenade for Lena *1944 - The thistle flower *1947 - Small terror play *1948 - Through the night *1952 - Low Tibet *1956 - The flag of reality *1959 - Have and be *1960 - Trident. Poems 1952-1958 *1960 - Chatting *1964 - The thought of my echo *1965 - Streak through the bill *1971 - The quark and the big smurf *1975 - Poems 1950-1975 *1981 - Potter's frogs *1982 - Anything from that *1986 - Earlier comes later *1987 - No lords *1988 - At odds with the excuse *1988 - It seems like winter *2004 - The parable of the manatee *2005 - Not for chefs, but for the guests *2006 - The Zevenaar (Poetry experiments 1941-1950) References Profileat the Digital library for Dutch literature The Digital Library for Dutch Literature (Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
