Jan de Rooden

Vase covered with red engobe, 1961.

Jan de Rooden (31 August 1931 - 1 April 2016) was a Dutch ceramist and sculptor, who worked in Nijmegen, Paris, and Amsterdam.[1][2]

Life and work

Born in Nijmegen, De Rooden grew up in Groesbeek and was seminarist in Haastrecht from 1945 to 1953. After a stay in Paris and being rejected for military service, he decided to become a potter.[3]

As autodidact[2] he started working in the studio of ceramist Lucie Q. Bakker in Amsterdam in 1956. In 1958, he started his own studio with Johnny Rolf, whom he later married.[4] In 1962 De Rooden took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with Hans de Jong, Sonja Landweer, Johan van Loon, Johnny Rolf and Jan van der Vaart, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.[5] In 1966, he was visiting designer at the Gustavsberg porcelain factory in Zweden.[4]

In 1964, he and Johnny Rolf were awarded the "Contour Prijs" by De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles in Delft. Funded by scholarships from the Dutch Ministry of Culture, De Rooden traveled to the United States in 1968–69, Asia, especially Japan and Korea in 1973–74, and Egypt in 1984. Over the years, he participated in multiple local, national, and international exhibitions in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A.[3]

Work in public collections

References

  1. ^ Facets of the same nature : a survey of contemporary Dutch ceramists : a traveling exhibition. Rotterdam; New York: Tonk Foundation, 1993.
  2. ^ a b Jan de Rooden at rkd.nl. Accessed 16.05.2015.
  3. ^ a b Jan de Rooden; Chronologie en Notities at johnnyrolfjanderooden.nl. Accessed 16.05.2015.
  4. ^ a b Jan de Rooden (1931-), Items door kunstenaar/bedrijf - Literatuur over kunstenaar/bedrijf at artentique.nl. Accessed 16.05.2015.
  5. ^ Mienke Simon Thomas (2008). Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland. p. 188
  6. ^ "A Life Story in Ceramics 1957-2006 Archived 2015-05-26 at the Wayback Machine" at www.gemeentemuseum.nl, 10.10.2012
  7. ^ Collectie at boijmans.nl, 2015.
  8. ^ Jan de Rooden at Princessehof Ceramics Museum collection, 2015.

Further reading

  • J.W.N. van Achterberg (1973). Johnny Rolf & Jan de Rooden.
  • Johnny Rolf, Jan de Rooden. Johnny Rolf, Jan De Rooden, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, (Rotterdam, Pays-Bas), 1974.
  • Twee Amsterdamse pottenbakkers: Johnny Rolf, Jan de Rooden, 1974.
  • Allaard H. Hidding, Johannes Willem Maria Rooden (1980). Jan de Rooden: nieuwe vormen.
  • Jan de Rooden, J. W. N. van Achterbergh (1991). Jan de Rooden: Keramisch Kunstenaar = Jan de Rooden.
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