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Pieter "Piet" Stockmans (born 26 October 1940) is a Flemish designer and ceramist.


Biography

Stockmans was born in Leopoldsburg. He studied sculpture and ceramics in
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and in
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in Germany. After graduation, he settled in
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. From 1966 to 1989 Stockmans was an industrial designer in the Royal Mosa porcelain factory in Maastricht. In those years he was the chief designer, who designed over 70% of all the company's products. Most successful was his design for the coffee "Sonja" cup, of which over 40 million were sold.Piet Stockmans (1940)
kunstbus.nl. Accessed 25 May 2015. Between 1969 and 1998 Stockman also taught industrial design at the Department of Product Design at the Municipal Institute of Visual Comm and Design, later Media and Design Academy in Genk, and from 1983 to 1985 taught ceramic design at the
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. Since 1989, he has been a freelance designer. Since 2010, Stockmans has lived on the C-Mine site, a former coal-mine complex near to Winterslag in Genk. In autumn 2010, there was a retrospective of his work at the Design Museum in Ghent.


Selected publications

* Jo Rombouts, Piet Stockmans. ''Piet(er) Stockmans,'' Studio Pieter Stockmans, 2011.


See also

*
List of Dutch ceramists This is a list of Dutch ceramists who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. __NOTOC__ A * Cris Agterberg (1883–1948) * Aalmis (1674–1755) * Karel Appel (1921–2006) * Govert-Marinus Augustijn (1871–1963) B ...


References


External links


Studio Pieter Stockmans

Piet Stockmans
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Works of Piet Stockmans
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Keramiekmuseum Princessehof 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 ...
. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stockmans, Pieter 1940 births Living people Belgian ceramists People from Limburg (Belgium)