Dora Dolz de Herman (

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, 5 November 1941 -

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, 1 March 2008) was a Spanish-Dutch artist, best known for her outdoor ceramic works in the form of chairs and sofas.

Life and work

Dolz grew up in Barcelona, where her father had a booth at the flea market. In 1965 she moved to the Netherlands when her husband wanted to pursue a PhD in economics at the Tinbergen Institute.Willemijn Stokvis (2008).
Dora Dolz (1941-2008) Weelderige, wulpse vormen kenmerken haar werk
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, 4 March 2008. Between 1967 and 1971 she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art, where she was a lecturer herself from the 1980s. As an artist Dotz mainly produced paintings, ceramics, glassware, rugs, which were often pictured in flamboyant colors form. Recurring themes (leitmotifs) in these works were birth, life, suffering and death. Her work is found in the collections of the

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 its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...

in Rotterdam and the

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( Heino). There are sculptures by her in the center of Rotterdam, Rotterdam West, Rotterdam North, Capelle aan den IJssel, Schiedam, Tiel and Groningen. In 1988 Dotz received the Victorine Heftingprijs, and in January 2008 the municipality of

awarded her the Wolfert van Borselen medal. She was awarded the Judith Leysterprize three times, the third time in 1992. Her daughter is the filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz, who in 2005 made a movie portrait about her called ''Portrait of Dora Dolz''.

Exhibitions, a selection

* 1973. Gallery 't Venster, Rotterdam. * 1975. ''Salon der Maassteden,'' Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. * 1975. Dora Dolz and Guus de Ruyter, De Doelen Rotterdam. * 1977. Gallery da Costa, Amsterdam * 1981. Gallery Alto, Rotterdam. * 1986. ''Salon D T' EEN,'' Gallery De lachende Koe, Rotterdam. * 1987. ''Leda en de Zwaan,'' Gallery De lachende Koe Rotterdam * 1992. ''Keramisch werk en schilderijen van Dora Dolz,'' Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch. * 2005. ''Galerij Erasmus'', Complex Hoboken, Rotterdam. * 2007-08. ''Boijmans Van Beuningen'', Rotterdam.Ed.
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Gallery

Sculptures

File:Capelle kunstwerk houten appel.jpg, Wooden apple (1978), Reigerlaan, Capelle aan den IJssel (along with Kees Franse) File:Pagode Catalana.JPG, Pagode Catalana (1978), Haarlem. File:Vloerplastiek Dora Dolz Poortweg UMCG.jpg, Floor mosaic, Groningen File:Wandmozaïek Dora Dolz Poortweg UMCG.jpg, Wall mosaic, Groningen File:Klokkenstoel Dora Dolz.JPG, ''Clock-chair'' (1990), Tiel File:Wassenaar kunstwerk vanitas.jpg, Vanitas, Wassenaar.

Fauteuils and chaise Longues

File:Rotterdam kunstwerk feuteuil.jpg, ''Fauteuil'', Beukelsdijk, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk Fauteuili.jpg, ''Fauteuili'', Hildegardisstraat, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk dora dolz gravendijkwal.jpg, ''Fauteuil'', 's-Gravendijkwal/Rochussenstraat, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk Chaise Longue.jpg, Chaise Longue in the park at the Euromast in Rotterdam File:Pijnacker kunstwerk Dora Dolz.jpg, Chaise Longue in Pijnacker

References

External links

Dora Dolz
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolz, Dora 1941 births 2008 deaths Women artists from Catalonia Spanish ceramists Dutch ceramists Willem de Kooning Academy alumni Academic staff of Willem de Kooning Academy Artists from Barcelona 20th-century Dutch sculptors Spanish women sculptors Dutch women sculptors Spanish women ceramists Dutch women ceramists 20th-century Spanish women artists 20th-century ceramists 21st-century ceramists 20th-century Dutch women 20th-century women sculptors