Simone Haak (born
Ooststellingwerf, 6 June 1952) is a Dutch visual artist, who has worked as
monumental artist. sculptor and
ceramicist,
She is art dealer at
Gallery Terra Delft, which she co-founded with Joke Doedens (1962).
[Kitty Kilian,]
10 jaar galerie Terra; Keramisch gezicht op Delft
" ''NRC Handelsblad,'' 23 May 1996.
Biography
Early years, education and the Porceleyne Fles
Haak was born and raised in Ooststellingwerf, a municipality in the province of
Friesland. She studied art at the
Academie Minerva in Minerva under
Kees van Rensen. On his advised she continue her studies in Delft, where from 1975 to 1977 she was an apprentice at the experimental department of the
De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles under
Theo Dobbelman.
The experimental department of De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles in Delft had been a breathing ground for a new generation of Dutch ceramists since the 1950s. In the 1970s little had left but the remains of experiments of ceramists such as
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(1955–2019). The cooperation which started here, would continued later at the gallery.
After she left the Porceleyne Fles in 1997 Haak took a teaching position at the
Het Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest.
Later years at Gallery Terra Delft
In 1986 Haak founded the
Gallery Terra in Delft together with Joke Doedens (1961). Their intention as to create new market opportunities for Dutch ceramists on the Dutch market.
The art gallery had started in 1986 in an patrician house at the
Oude Delft
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, the eldest canal in Delft. After three years in 1989 it moved to a shop-premises in Nieuwstraat, a side street between the Oude Delft and the Wijnhaven, where it would remain.
[Ankie Maessen et al (eds.). ]
Ceramics – The Story of Thirty Years Terra Delft Gallery
'' Terra 30 jaar, 1986–2016. p. 4
See also
*
List of Dutch ceramists
References
External links
Haak, Simone Capriolus Contemporary Ceramics
Works of Simone Haak Galerie Terra Delft
Simone Haak ''verhalenwiki.nl'' by Trudy van der Wees (in Dutch)
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1952 births
Living people
Dutch ceramists
Dutch women ceramists
Dutch art dealers