Johan Gerard van Loon (

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, 29 October 1934 –

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

, 24 February 2020) was a Dutch ceramist and textile artist.Biographical data
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life and work

Van Loon studied textile design at the

Gerrit Rietveld Academie 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 I ...

from 1952 to 1956, and from 1957 to 1960 at the

Konstfack Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the e ...

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Stig Lindberg Stig Lindberg (17 August 1916 in Umeå, Sweden – 7 April 1982 in San Felice Circeo, Italy) was a Swedish ceramic designer, glass designer, textile designer, industrial designer, painter, and illustrator. One of Sweden's most important ...

. In 1958 he took pottery classes from the

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potter Jos Eppens van Veen,Johan van Loon
at capriolus.nl. Accessed 20.05.2015. in 1960 from Thera Hofstede Crull, and in 1961 at the

Camberwell College of Arts Camberwell College of Arts is a public tertiary art school in Camberwell, in London, England. It is one of the six constituent colleges of the University of the Arts London. It offers further and higher education programmes, including postgra ...

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Lucie Rie Dame Lucie Rie, (16 March 1902 – 1 April 1995) () was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Life Early years and education Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary, the youngest child of Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewis ...

. In 1960 he took another study tour to Scandinavia and worked with Kylikki Salmenhaara for the Arabia porcelain factory in Finland. In 1962 Van Loon took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam in

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...

, together with

Hans de Jong Hans de Jong (26 March 1932 – 3 March 2011) was a Dutch sculptor, designer and ceramist. Life and work Born in Leiden, De Jong received his first lessons in pottery in the studio of Gerrit de Blanken (1894–1961) in Zoeterwoude in 1948. He ...

Sonja Landweer Sonja Landweer (20 April 1933 – 15 December 2019) was a Dutch artist and ceramist, who lived and worked in Ireland, known for her bronze castings, unique patinations and subtle forms.Peppercanister Gallery.Sonja Landweer, biography" at ''pepper ...

Johnny Rolf Johanna Jacoba (Johnny) Rolf (born 30 September 1936, in The Hague) is a Dutch ceramist, drawing artist and sculptor. Life and work Rolf was educated into the pottery profession by Jan de Rooden, with whom she started a studio in 1958 and marr ...

Jan de Rooden Jan de Rooden (31 August 1931 - 1 April 2016) was a Dutch ceramist and sculptor, who worked in Nijmegen, Paris, and Amsterdam. Life and work Born in Nijmegen, De Rooden grew up in Groesbeek and was seminarist in Haastrecht from 1945 to 1953. A ...

and Jan van der Vaart, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.

Mienke Simon Thomas Margaretha Wilhelmina Francina (Mienke) Simon Thomas (born 1954) is a Dutch art historian, curator and author, working as a senior curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She is known for her works on the development of Dutch appli ...

(2008). ''Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland.'' p. 188 In the year 1963–64 he worked with the ceramic designer

, where he constructed wall ceramics. Back in The Netherlands he started his own studio in Hengelo in 1966. He designed a series of unique ceramic sculpture which were produced by the

Royal Copenhagen Royal Copenhagen, officially the Royal Porcelain Factory ( da, Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik), is a Danish manufacturer of porcelain products and was founded in Copenhagen in 1775 under the protection of Danish Dowager Queen Juliane Marie. It is ...

ceramic factory in

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. In 1966 he also started to lecture textile design and ceramics at several Dutch art academies. From 1977 to 1986 he lectured at the

AKV St. Joost St. Joost School of Art and Design (formerly Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Dutch ''Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost, Breda'') is a Dutch academy of art and design based in Breda and 's-Hertogenbosch. The school is part of Avans ...

, and late 1980s he founded the ceramics department at the ArtEZ Art & Design in

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

. Since 1994 he also lectured in Germany.

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Johan van Loon
at capriolus.nl
Works of Johan van Loon
at

Keramiekmuseum Princessehof The Princessehof Ceramics Museum (in Dutch: Keramiekmuseum Princessehof) is a museum of ceramics in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The museum's name comes from one of two buildings in which it is housed: a small palace ( means ‘royal ...

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Loon, Johan Gerard van 1934 births 2020 deaths Dutch ceramists Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Artists from Rotterdam

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