Johnny Rolf

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Johanna Jacoba (Johnny) Rolf (born 30 September 1936, in The Hague) is a Dutch ceramist, drawing artist and sculptor. [1]

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Life and work

Rolf was educated into the pottery profession by Jan de Rooden, with whom she started a studio in 1958 and married. [2] One of her students was the Dutch ceramist Mariet Schmidt, born in Schiedam in 1935. [3]

In 1962 Rolf took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with Hans de Jong, Sonja Landweer, Johan van Loon, Jan de Rooden and Jan van der Vaart, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands. [4] In 1966 she was visiting designer at the Gustavsberg porcelain factory in Zweden. [2]

In 1964 she and Jan de Rooden were awarded the "Contour Prijs" by De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles in Delft.

Works in public collections

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References

  1. Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
  2. 1 2 Jan de Rooden (1931-), Items door kunstenaar/bedrijf - Literatuur over kunstenaar/bedrijf at artentique.nl. Accessed 16.05.2015.
  3. Schmidt, Mariet | Capriolus Collectable Ceramics
  4. Mienke Simon Thomas (2008). Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland. p. 188
  5. "A Life Story in Ceramics 1957-2006" at www.gemeentemuseum.nl, 10.10.2012
  6. Johnny Rolf in Princessehof Ceramics Museum collection, 2015.
  7. Collectie Wim Crouwel: Johnny Rolf, recent werk uit srie ovens, 1980, at stedelijk.nl/en/artwork/52912. Accessed 05.2015.

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