Pieter Stockmans

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Portrait of Piet Stockmans, 2012.
Servies Fuga, 1963. Servies Fuga, ontwerp Piet Stockmans, geproduceerd door Mosa vanaf 1969 (collectie H v Buren, Maastrichts aardewerk, Centre Ceramique, Maastricht).JPG
Servies Fuga, 1963.
Servies Tete-a-tete, ca. 1983. Servies Tete-a-tete, ontwerp Piet Stockmans, geproduceerd door Mosa ca 1983 (collectie H v Buren, Maastrichts aardewerk, Centre Ceramique, Maastricht).JPG
Servies Tête-à-tête, ca. 1983.

Pieter (Piet) Stockmans (born Leopoldsburg, 26 October 1940) is a Flemish designer and ceramist. [1]

Leopoldsburg Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Leopoldsburg is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2006, Leopoldsburg had a total population of 14,403. The total area is 22.49 km² which gives a population density of 640 inhabitants per km². It is situated near the important military base at Beverloo Camp. The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Leopoldsburg proper and Heppen.

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Biography

Stockmans was born in Leopoldsburg. He studied sculpture and ceramics in Hasselt and in Selb in Germany. After graduation, he settled in Genk.

Hasselt Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Hasselt is a Flemish city and municipality, and capital of the province of Limburg in Belgium. The Hasselt municipality includes the original city of Hasselt, plus the old communes of Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, Wimmertingen, Kermt, Spalbeek, Kuringen, Stokrooie, Stevoort and Runkst, as well as the hamlets and parishes of Kiewit, Godsheide and Rapertingen.

Selb Place in Bavaria, Germany

Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, on the border with the Czech Republic, 20 km northwest of Cheb and 23 km southeast of Hof.

Genk Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Genk is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt. The municipality only comprises the city of Genk itself. It is one of the most important industrial cities in Flanders, located on the Albert Canal, between Antwerp and Liège.

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. [2]

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 Design Academy Eindhoven. Since 1989, he has been a freelance designer.

Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition.

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.

Design Museum Gent museum in Gent

Design Museum Gent is the only museum in Belgium with an international design collection. The museum complex, situated in the heart of the tourist centre of Ghent, comprises an imposing 18th-century mansion and a modern wing. The museum possesses a comprehensive and trend-setting collection of Belgian design, supported by international top-class objects. Its collection includes everything from the Art Nouveau of Henry van de Velde to contemporary avant-garde design.

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References

  1. Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  2. Piet Stockmans (1940), kunstbus.nl. Accessed 25 May 2015.