Teunis (Teun) Jacob (Rheden, 11 June 1927 - 12 October 2009) was a Dutch wall painter and sculptor, who lived and worked in Rotterdam since the early 1950s. He made both figure and nonrepresentational art.

Live and work

Born in

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, Jacob studied fine art at the

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in Rotterdam in the department of drawing and painting. As sculptor he was autodidact. Since the 1950s Jacob worked as independent artist in Rotterdam. In 1957 Jacob and Ru van Rossem had a major exhibition of his work in the Lijnbaancentrum in Rotterdam.''Rotterdams jaarboekje 1957,'' 1958. p. 54 In the next decade he made sculptures for public places in Rotterdam, Spijkernisse and Tilburg. In 1970 he designed the summer exhibition for the theater museum in Amsterdam. In 1971 he was exhibition architect of the Brussels Pavilion and Downhill Palace in the Park of Culture and Rest Julius Fucik in

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. In Rotterdam in 1974 he made a sketch design for the district buildings in the boroughs Zuidwijk and IJsselmonde in Rotterdam. Later in the 1970s, in cooperation with Dutch sculptor Kees Verschuren, he created a massive

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project at the first

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, entitled ''Steen in water'' (Rock in Water). This industrial area in the

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was built on the land, reclaiming from the

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in the 1960s. In 1974 an initial project team was installed with Jacob, Wout Maters, Leen Droppert and Geert Lebbing, who granted the project to Jacobs and Verschuren. In a period of over five years, adjacent to a

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, the artists developed an area into the largest work of art in the Netherlands in those days. Other artists participated in the project, such as Marinus Boezem and

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.Steen in Water, exhibition
" at TENT, Rotterdam, 2014 In 1977 Jacob with Dries Wiecherink and Bouke Ylstra were appointed as visual artists at the national Government Buildings Agency under Wim Quist.Ed.
Kunstenaars aangesteld bij Rijksgebouwendienst
" ''Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant,'' 24 November 1977, p. 23. In 1985 Jacob designed a triangular court with fountain, which was part of a new office building by Abe Bonnema in the center of

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. Over the year Jacob was also lecturer at the

. With Hans Abelman,

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and

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he was an active member of the Bond voor Beeldende Kunst Arbeiders BBK A (''Association for Visual Arts Workers''). Together with Annet Chavannes he had been one of the driving forces of the trade journal for visual artists the ''BK-informatie.''

Work

In the 1950s Jacob had started as sculptor and came into prominence with an exhibition in the Lijnbaancentrum in 1957. In the next decade he created multiple sculptures in public places. In the 1970s he started working together with more applied work.

Gallery

File:Rotterdam relief kinderen.jpg, Relief children, Rotterdam 1960 File:Twiggy Teun Jacob Schouwburgpromenade Tilburg.JPG, ''Twiggy,'' Tilburg 1967 File:Rotterdamse haven.jpg, "Rock in Water," land art project on Maasvlakte in 1970s

Exhibitions a selection

* 1957. ''Sculptures and graphic work by Teun Jacob and Ru van Rossem.'' Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam. * 1966. ''Group exhibition''.

De Doelen De Doelen is a concert venue and convention centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was originally built in 1934 but then destroyed in 1940 during the German bombardment of Rotterdam in May 1940 at the outset of World War II. It was rebuilt in 19 ...

, Rotterdam. H.K.
Niet veel opzienbarends op tweede Doelen-expositie
" ''Het vrĳe volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad,'' Rotterdam, 1966/07/05, p. 5. * 2015. ''Steen in Water,'' TENT Rotterdam.28.11.2014 – 25.01.2015: Steen in Water
at tentrotterdam.nl. Accessed 30-11-2019.

Publications

* Sandra Smets and Han Lörzing. ''Steen in Water – een onbekend aardwerk voor de 1e Maasvlakte.''

References

External links

Drie mannen en zeven kinderen
statue in Spijkernisse at vanderkrogt.net
Steen in water - Land art op de Maasvlakte
at YouTube, 2017 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacob, Teunis 1941 births 2009 deaths Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors 20th-century Dutch sculptors Willem de Kooning Academy alumni Academic staff of Willem de Kooning Academy People from Rheden Artists from Gelderland 20th-century Dutch male artists