He also taught pottery to Princess Beatrix. His first major international exhibition was in Boston, USA in 1938.Īlso around that era in the Netherlands, all major cities had exhibitions of his work. The special feature of the ” King Blue ”was that when two objects such as a blue glazed” Delft “blue plate was placed alongside a plate in ” Royal Blue “, the ” Delft ” plate no longer looks blue but purple.
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The knowledge of how to make these blue glazes had been lost. It was widely used for amulets and pottery, Ushabti ( funery figurines ) and beautiful objects. He designed around 300 Art Deco potteries for Zenith and some of them went on to become famous.īecause of this, he left his mark on art around this period. From 1932 he worked as an independent ceramist. In 1938 he rediscovered the so-called “Royal Blue”. This was a blue glaze, used by the Egyptians around the time of the New Kingdom (c. In the period !928 – 1934 he worked as an artistic director in the pottery factories at Eskaf in Huizen, Kennemerland in Velsen, St lucas in Maarsseen and Zenith and Goedewaagen. In 1927 he began teaching at the Institute of Applied Art school in Amsterdam. He started pottery in 1922 at the age of 14 in the Quellinusschool ( Amsterdam ) by taking courses from Bert Nienhuis.
Willem Stuurman is recognized as a great artist in Dutch Pottery who was born in Amsterdam in 1908.
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