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Johannes Christiaan "Chris" Lanooy (16 March 1881 – 24 January 1948) was a Dutch potter and designer, who worked as ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art.


Life and work

Lanooy was born in Sint-Annaland i 1881 as son of Cornelis Lanooij and Janna van 't Hof. Lanooy studied at the
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague The Royal Academy of Art (, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the Education in the Netherlands, HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs. Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (pa ...
and was a student of the Roermond architect and artist
Pierre Cuypers Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers (16 May 1827 – 3 March 1921) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–1885), both in Amsterdam. ...
and Gouda painter and art teacher Jan Lugthart. As a ceramist, he was an autodidact. He worked at ceramic factories in The Hague, Gouda en Purmerend, and at the Royal Leerdam Crystal glass factory in Leerdam. His work has been exhibited regularly at home and abroad. The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden has more than a hundred works of Lanooy in the collection. In 2002 this museum dedicated a retrospective exhibition of his work. Twenty-five years earlier, in 1977, this museum also dedicated an exhibition to his work. This exhibition was opened by the then Minister of Culture, Recreation and Social work, Harry van Doorn. Lanooy was married to Joanna Elisabeth Schuitemaker. He died in January 1948 at the age of 66 in the province of Gelderland in Epe. In September 2008, the renewed council hall of the town hall of Epe was renamed the ''Lanooy lounge,'' and contained a stained glass window of Lanooy."Vernieuwde raadszaal geopend," website gemeente Epe, 5 september 2008


Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Chris Lanooy are: *
Museum de Fundatie Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...
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Zwolle Zwolle () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the Capital city, capital of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Overijssel ...
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Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
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Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...
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Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...


Gallery

File:Bord met monochroom blauw glazuur, 1925-50.jpg, Plate with monochrome blue glaze, 1925–50 File:Vaas met glazuurdecoratie, 1925-50.jpg, Vase with glaze decoration, 1925–50 File:Schotel met polychroom decor van granaatappels, 1930.jpg, Dish with polychrome decor of
pomegranate The pomegranate (''Punica granatum'') is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punica, Punicoideae, that grows between tall. Rich in symbolic and mythological associations in many cultures, it is thought to have o ...
s, 1930 File:Plastiek, voorstellende het hoofd van Guanyin, 1950.jpg, Plastic art, head of
Guanyin Guanyin () is a common Chinese name of the bodhisattva associated with Karuṇā, compassion known as Avalokiteśvara (). Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means " he One WhoPerceives the Sounds of the World". Originally regarded as m ...
, 1950


See also

* List of Dutch ceramists


References


Further reading

*Ebbinge, E. ''C. J. Lanooy, kunstpottenbakker'', uitg. Eisma, Leeuwarden, 1977 (ter gelegenheid van een tentoonstelling van zijn werk in het Gemeentelijk Museum "Het Princessehof" te Leeuwarden *Kley-Blekxtoon, Annette van der ''Leerdam glas 1878–2003 : de glasfabriek Leerdam'', 4e druk, uitg. ANTIEK Lochem, 2004 (eerder uitgegeven als ''Leerdam glas 1878–1998: de glasfabriek Leerdam'', in 1999 en oorspronkelijk als ''Leerdam glas 1878–1930'' opgenomen in de Tijdstroom antiekwijzers, uitg. De Tijdstroom, Lochem, 1984) *Heijbroek, Willem t al.''Tussen twee vuren: Chris Lanooy, 1881–1948'', uitg. Waanders, Zwolle, 2002


External links

*
lanooij.com
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Christiaan Johannes Lanooy 1881–1948, kunstpottenbakker
at biografischwoordenboekgelderland.nl. * at artwis.com, 11 March 2010.
Works of Chris Lanoo
at Keramiekmuseum Princessehof. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanooy, Johannes Christiaan 1881 births 1948 deaths People from Tholen Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni 20th-century Dutch ceramists