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Theodorus Karel Lodewijk Sluijterman, ( Engelen, January 22, 1863 – The Hague, June 8, 1931) was a Dutch architect, furniture designer, interior designer, illustrator, ceramist, book binding designer and professor.Biographical data
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
File:Fidessa.jpg, Book cover ''Fidessa'' by
Theodorus Karel Lodewijk Sluijterman, ( Engelen, January 22, 1863 – The Hague, June 8, 1931) was a Dutch architect, furniture designer, interior designer, illustrator, ceramist, book binding designer and professor.at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
Life and work
From 1880 to 1884 Sluijterman studied at the Polytechnic School in Delft (the futureDelft University of Technology
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; ) is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. It specializes in engineering, technology, computing, design, a ...
) under the designer Adolf le Comte and at the Academy of Fine and Applied Courses in Rotterdam.
From 1888 to 1891, Sluijterman worked in Paris at the Franco-Dutch architect-decorator Eduard Johan Niermans (1859-1928), where he got acquainted with the French floral Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
. This new style would greatly influence his work, though not all of his designs can be rank under the art nouveau. He also worked in the popular nineteenth-century revival styles
An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, fo ...
.
Back in the Netherlands Sluyterman was first aesthetic consultant and designer in 't Interior, a company for interior design founded by the innovative architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (; 21 February 185612 August 1934) was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Ber ...
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In 1895 Sluyterman became a Professor at the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he taught decorative art and theory of ornaments. In 1901 Sluyterman became teacher ornament drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem. In these capacities he actively worked to spread the applied arts.
In 1900 he creates with the architect Johan Mutters the Dutch pavilion in the Art Nouveau style for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris.
Back home the Amsterdam jeweler and goldsmith William Hoeker, founder of the Amsterdam interior design firm ''The Interior,'' hired Sluijterman as aesthetic consultant and designer. One of his assistants was Gerrit Versteeg.
Gallery
Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological fiction, psychological and historical fiction, historical novels, novellas, short ...
File:Omslag van Reis-impressies van Couperus K. Sluyterman.jpg, Book cover ''Reis-impressies'' by Louis Couperus
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus (10 June 1863 – 16 July 1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological fiction, psychological and historical fiction, historical novels, novellas, short ...
File:Delftsch Studenten Corps - De Zaak - RM 12156.jpg, Ceiling paintings from design by Sluyterman
See also
*List of Dutch ceramists
This is a list of Dutch ceramists who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands.
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* Cris Agterberg (1883–1948)
* Aalmis (1674–1755)
* Karel Appel (1921–2006)
* Govert-Marinus Augustijn (1871–1963)
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References
External links
* Royal Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Sluijterman, Theodorus Karel Lodewijk 1863 births 1931 deaths Dutch architects Dutch ceramists Dutch designers Dutch graphic designers Delft University of Technology alumni Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology People from 's-Hertogenbosch