Mienke Simon Thomas

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Mienke Simon Thomas
Curator's Choice; Mienke Simon Thomas shows Doomer's Collector's Cabinet, 2014.jpg
Curator's Choice; Mienke Simon Thomas shows Doomer's Collector's Cabinet, 2014.
Born
Margaretha Wilhelmina Francina Simon Thomas

1954
NationalityDutch
Occupation Art historian  ; curator ; author
Years activeSince 1976
Known forDutch Design: A History (2008)

Margaretha Wilhelmina Francina (Mienke) Simon Thomas (born 1954) is a Dutch art historian, curator and author, working as a senior curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She is known for her works on the development of Dutch applied art and design. [1]

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Life and work

Simon Thomas studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven from 1972 to 1976, and continued for some time in the history of art and design at Utrecht University. Later in 1996 she obtained her PhD in this direction at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under Carel Blotkamp with a dissertation on ornaments and ornament theories in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1930. [1]

At the end of the seventies Simon Thomas started as a freelancer. She participated in the Industry & Design exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from 1985 to 1986. [2] in 1986 she published a book about the furniture designer Cornelis van der Sluys. [3]

In 1993 Simon Thomas started as a curator at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, where she grew to be the main curator as successor of Thimo te Duits. She then continued to write about Dutch design and its development. For example, she wrote general books about the Dutch packaging industry, Art Deco in the Netherlands, and some biographical works about designers such as Jaap Gidding, Jacob Jongert and Johan Thorn Prikker. [1]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Portret Mienke Simon Thomas," MfDC 2011/2012. online op myfirstdesigncollection.nl, 2018. (in Dutch)
  2. Editorial. "Tentoonstelling in het Stedelijk: Industriële vormgeving in Nederland lang traditioneel". de Volkskrant, 3 January 1986.(in Dutch)
  3. Hans Boerrichter, "Wanneer is een borstel geen borstel? Boeken over vormgeving: de complementariteit, binnenhuisarchitecten en Rietvelds bouwkunst," Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad. Rotterdam, 14 July 1988. (in Dutch)