Teun Jacob

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Teun Jacob
Born
Teunis Jacob

(1927-06-11)11 June 1927
Rheden, Netherlands
Died12 October 2009(2009-10-12) (aged 82)
Nationality Dutch
Education Willem de Kooning Academy
Known for Sculpture, painting
Notable workTwiggy, Tilburg 1967
Website https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/41315

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. [1]

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Live and work

Born in Rheden, Jacob studied fine art at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in the department of drawing and painting. As sculptor he was autodidact. [2]

Since the 1950s Jacob worked as independent artist in Rotterdam. In 1957 Jacob and Ru van Rossem [3] had a major exhibition of his work in the Lijnbaancentrum in Rotterdam. [4] [5] In the next decade he made sculptures for public places in Rotterdam, Spijkernisse [6] and Tilburg. [7]

In 1970 he designed the summer exhibition for the theater museum in Amsterdam. [8] [9] In 1971 he was exhibition architect of the Brussels Pavilion and Downhill Palace in the Park of Culture and Rest Julius Fucik in Prague. [10] In Rotterdam in 1974 he made a sketch design for the district buildings in the boroughs Zuidwijk and IJsselmonde in Rotterdam. [11] [12]

Later in the 1970s, in cooperation with Dutch sculptor Kees Verschuren, he created a massive land art project at the first Maasvlakte, entitled Steen in water (Rock in Water). [13] This industrial area in the Port of Rotterdam was built on the land, reclaiming from the North Sea in the 1960s. In 1974 an initial project team was installed with Jacob, Wout Maters, Leen Droppert and Geert Lebbing, [14] who granted the project to Jacobs and Verschuren. In a period of over five years, adjacent to a power plant, 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 Carel Visser. [15]

In 1977 Jacob with Dries Wiecherink and Bouke Ylstra were appointed as visual artists at the national Government Buildings Agency under Wim Quist. [16] [17] In 1985 Jacob designed a triangular court with fountain, which was part of a new office building by Abe Bonnema in the center of Leeuwarden. [18] [19]

Over the year Jacob was also lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy. [16] [20] With Hans Abelman, Lucien den Arend and Lon Pennock he was an active member of the Bond voor Beeldende Kunst Arbeiders BBK A (Association for Visual Arts Workers). [21] Together with Annet Chavannes he had been one of the driving forces of the trade journal for visual artists the BK-informatie. [22]

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.

Exhibitions a selection

Publications

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References

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  2. ↑ Scheen, Pieter A. Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1950. 's-Gravenhage : Scheen, 1969
  3. ↑ Leven en werk van Ru van Rossem (1924-2007) at ruvanrossemwerken.nl, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Rotterdams jaarboekje 1957, 1958. p. 54
  5. ↑ Peter Buisman. Kunst in Ommoord in Kleur. 2010. p. 57
  6. ↑ Drie mannen en zeven kinderen; Spijkernisse, at vanderkrogt.net. Accessed 30.11.2019.
  7. ↑ Tilburg - Twiggy - Mens & Dier in Steen & Brons, at vanderkrogt.net. Accessed 30.11.2019.
  8. ↑ Ed. "Toneelmuseum: collectie in nieuw licht," Trouw. Meppel, 1970/06/23, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Ed. "IN OPDRACHT," Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, Rotterdam, 1970/11/23, p. 4.
  10. ↑ Vladimír Jindara. PQ 71: Pražské Quadriennale jevištniho výtvarnictví a divadelní architektury, Bruselský pavilión a Sjezdový palác v Parku kultury a oddechu Julia Fučíka v Praze. Divadelńi ustav, 1971.
  11. ↑ Ruud Wever. "EIGEN WIJKS: Procedure kunstwerk stap verder," Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, Rotterdam, 1973/06/19, p. 11.
  12. ↑ Annemiek van Oosten, "Ommoord wil wijkgebouw mooi maken." Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, Rotterdam, 1974/09/23, p. 7.
  13. ↑ Documentary "Steen in water", by Fello Films at vimeo.com, 2014.
  14. ↑ Ed. "Kunstenaars bij vier projecten ingeschakeld," NRC Handelsblad, Rotterdam, 1974/09/07, p. 16.
  15. ↑ "Steen in Water, exhibition," at TENT, Rotterdam, 2014
  16. 1 2 Ed. "Kunstenaars aangesteld bij Rijksgebouwendienst," Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, 24 November 1977, p. 23.
  17. ↑ Michiel Morel. "Bonies 1975-1986 (7): een ondeelbaar kunstenaarschap, at michielmorel.nl, 27 juli 2017.
  18. ↑ Symen Kingsma, "Opvallende gevels". "Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland". Leeuwarden, 1985/05/10, p. 4.
  19. ↑ Avero passage at abebonnema.nl. Accessed 30-11-2019.
  20. ↑ Teunis Jacob, at artindex.nl, 2015.
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  22. ↑ Ed. "Steen in water," book review in Beelden, Nr. 3, 2019: online at beeldenmagazine.nl, 2019.
  23. ↑ Kinderen met vissen (1960), Teun Jacob at bkor.nl. 30.11.2019.
  24. ↑ Ed. "Tentoonstellingen," Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, 1957/02/09, p. 11.
  25. ↑ Piet Begeer, "Ru van Rossem en Teun Jacob: Waardige opvatting taak kunstenaar,. Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, Rotterdam, 1957/02/21, p. 11.
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