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 ''peppercanister.com.'' Accessed 16.05.2015.

Life and work

Landweer was born in Amsterdam, the eldest child of three to German artist and teacher, Erna Benter-Landweer and Dutch registrar of births and deaths, Pieter Landweer. She studied ceramics 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 ...

in the early 1950s, and started her own art studio in 1954. In 1962 she took part in 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

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, Jan van der Vaart and

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, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.

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(2008). ''Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland.'' p. 188 In 1965 she was invited to move to Ireland to revitalise Irish craft and design as part of a group of international artists, where she met

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with whom she had one child called Aoine in 1966. She was artist in residence at the

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and teacher. There she came into contact with

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of C. & J. Clark, and inspired him to develop his Desert Trek shoe design. In 1981 she jointed

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and kept drawing, painting, print-making, making jewellery and pottery. Landweer was awarded the Verzetsprijs in Holland in 1964; the prix artistique at the Biennale Internationale de Ceramique d’Art, Vallauris, France in 1974 and the 1992 honorary award from NCAD.

Work in public collections

The work of Landweer is held in several public collections worldwide, a selection: *

Frans Hals Museum The Frans Hals Museum is a museum located in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum was established in 1862. In 1950, the museum was split in two locations when the collection of modern art was moved to the '' Museum De Hallen'' (since 2018 called ...

, Haarlem *

Princessehof Ceramics Museum 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 ...

* Hildesheim Stadtisches Museum, Germany * Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen *

Ulster Museum The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasure ...

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Sonja Landweer, Peppercanister Gallery
biography.
Sonja Landweer
jewelry. {{DEFAULTSORT:Landweer, Sonja 1933 births Dutch women ceramists Dutch people of German descent Artists from Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Aosdána members 2019 deaths

Life and work

Work in public collections

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