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Theodorus Karel Lodewijk Sluijterman, (Biographical data
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
File:Fidessa.jpg, Book cover ''Fidessa'' by
Theodorus Karel Lodewijk Sluijterman, (Engelen
Engelen is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Brabant. It is part of the municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch.
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Engelen is located in the north of North Brabant. It borders the villages Vlijmen and Bokhoven as ...
, January 22, 1863 – The Hague, June 8, 1931) was a Dutch architect, furniture designer, interior designer, illustrator, ceramist, book binding designer and professor.at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Life and work
From 1880 to 1884 Sluijterman studied at the Polytechnic School in Delft (the futureDelft University of Technology
Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among ...
) under the designer Adolf le Comte and at the Academy of Fine and Applied Courses in Rotterdam.
From 1888 to 1891, Sluijterman worked in Paris at the Franco-Dutch architect-decorator Eduard Johan Niermans (1859-1928), where he got acquainted with the French floral art nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
. This new style would greatly influence his work, though not all of his designs can be rank under the art nouveau. He also worked in the popular nineteenth-century revival styles
An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...
.
Back in the Netherlands Sluyterman was first aesthetic consultant and designer in 't Interior, a company for interior design founded by the innovative architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a Dutch architect. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Berlage and An ...
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In 1895 Sluyterman became a Professor at the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he taught decorative art and theory of ornaments. In 1901 Sluyterman became teacher ornament drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem. In these capacities he actively worked to spread the applied arts.
In 1900 he creates with the architect Johan Mutters the Dutch pavilion in the Art Nouveau style for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris.
Back home the Amsterdam jeweler and goldsmith William Hoeker, founder of the Amsterdam interior design firm ''The Interior,'' hired Sluijterman as aesthetic consultant and designer. One of his assistants was Gerrit Versteeg.
Gallery
Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and ske ...
File:Omslag van Reis-impressies van Couperus K. Sluyterman.jpg, Book cover ''Reis-impressies'' by Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and ske ...
File:Delftsch Studenten Corps - De Zaak - RM 12156.jpg, Ceiling paintings from design by Sluyterman
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)
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References
External links
* Royal Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Sluijterman, Theodorus Karel Lodewijk 1863 births 1931 deaths Dutch architects Dutch ceramists Dutch designers Dutch graphic designers Delft University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology People from 's-Hertogenbosch