Cornelis van der Sluys (
Brouwershaven
Brouwershaven is a small city on the Grevelingen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, lies about 45 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis and 10 km north of Zierikzee.
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, 4 June 1883 – Amsterdam, 4 January 1944) was a Dutch furniture and textile designer, interior designer, decorator, glass painter, sculptor, goldsmith, organizer, and publicist.
Biographical data
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.[Titus M. Eliëns. ''Het Keramiek Boek. Nederlands vernieuwingsaardewerk 1880–1940,'' 2006.]
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Van der Sluys designed textile, made designs for carpets, wallpaper and chairs and ceramic decorations on pottery for the first Steenwijker Art Pottery Factory. From 1901 to 1904 he designed Belgian and French Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts copper work and designs for batiks for the Hague art dealers.
Life and work
Cornelis van der Sluys was the son of Willem van der Sluys (agent) and Anna Constandse. He married for the first time in 1909 with Hermanna van Maanen and had with her a son Fritz. For the second time he married in 1932 with Victoria Strauss and they had a son, called Rudolf.
After training as a decorative painter, he was educated at the Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1894 to 1899 where he was a pupil of amongst others under Johan Thorn Prikker
Johan Thorn Prikker (6 June 1868, The Hague - 5 March 1932, Cologne) was a Dutch artist who worked in Germany after 1904. His activities were very eclectic, including architecture, lithography, furniture, stained-glass windows, mosaics, tapestries ...
and Eduard Willem Frederik Kerling.
He worked in The Hague from 1901 to 1904 as chief draftsman at art dealers arts & crafts. In 1905 to 1906 he made a tour of Europe, notably in Belgium and England then returned to The Hague, where he kept worked from 1906 to 1944.
Together with H.T. Coolwijk (business manager) they founded the company "Corn. Van der Sluys," located in a house with several showrooms on the Avenue of New East Indies. Later the firm moved to the Lange Houtstraat. In 1916, the company is dissolved. In 1916–1918 he established the Office of Interior Architecture and Furniture in the Old Molstraat with Van der Sluys as director. From 1918 to 1944 he had his office and house at Noordeinde 162 in The Hague.
Van der Sluys was a member of the Association for Craft and Art Industry (VANK)
See also
* List of Dutch ceramists
This is a list of Dutch ceramists who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands.
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* Cris Agterberg (1883–1948)
* Aalmis (1674–1755)
* Karel Appel (1921–2006)
* Govert-Marinus Augustijn (1871–1963) ...
References
Further reading
* C. de Lorm, "Nieuw werk van Cornelis van der Sluys," ''Onze Kunst'' 12 (1913), nr. 6, p. 206–215
* M.S. Thomas, ''Corn. van der Sluys binnenhuisarchitect, organisator en publicist 1881/1944,'' Rotterdam 1988.
* M.S. Thomas, "Cornelis van der Sluys. Nijverheidskunst in Den Haag, 1906–1916," in: ''Jaarboek Die Haghe 1989,'' p. 146–173
External links
*
Blanken, Gerrit de
at capriolus.nl
Works of Gerrit de Blanken
at Keramiekmuseum Princessehof.
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1883 births
1944 deaths
Dutch ceramists
Dutch designers
Dutch sculptors
Dutch male sculptors
People from Schouwen-Duiveland
20th-century sculptors
20th-century ceramists