Carel Visser

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Carel Visser (1964)
Moeder en kind (2001) Westersingel, Rotterdam
Pleinbeeld (1998) Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Groningen (1969)

Carel Nicolaas Visser (born May 3, 1928 in Papendrecht , Netherlands ; † March 1, 2015 in Le Fousseret , France ) was a Dutch sculptor . He is considered an important representative of the Dutch abstract- minimalist constructivism in sculpture.

life and work

Carel Visser studied architecture from 1948 to 1949 at the Technical University in Delft . From 1951 he studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague .

After a study trip to England and France , he settled in Amsterdam in 1952. He made stylized iron bird sculptures and had his first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Martinet Gallery in Amsterdam.

In 1957, when his sculpture became more abstract, he began a study trip to Italy ( Sardinia ) with a grant from the Italian government. In 1962 he was visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri) ( USA ) and toured Mexico in 1965 on a grant from the Dutch government. Visser was a lecturer at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague from 1958 to 1962. Around 1960 he dealt with massive closed cubes made of iron and “weak” cubes made of wire.

In 1968 Visser took part in the 4th documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale . From 1966 to 1998 he was a lecturer at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem .

Carel Visser is described as one of the most important constructivist artists in the Netherlands. His later work is characterized by assembling a variety of materials such as tires, drums, car, leather, lambskin , eggs, etc. Some of his works are also structured like a musical composition in which repetition and variation play an important role.

Important museums with his works

Prices

  • 1968: David E. Bright Prize
  • 1972: State Prize for Fine Art and Architecture
  • 1971: Prize of the 8th International Graphic Biennale, Tokyo
  • 1992: City of Amsterdam Art Prize

Important exhibitions

  • 1956: Exhibition “International Contemporary Sculpture”, Musée Rodin , Paris
  • 1957: "Nederlandse Beeldhouwkunst", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • 1959: “Pictures in the Present”, Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
  • 1985: Overview of the exhibition: “Image 1975–1985”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • 1990: Exhibition in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover

literature

  • Exhibition catalog for the IV. Documenta: IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects). Kassel 1968
  • Harald Kimpel, Karin Stengel: documenta IV 1968 international exhibition - a photographic reconstruction (series of publications in the documenta archive). Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-524-9

Web links

Commons : Carel Visser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dutch sculptor Carel Visser has died . dpa message on Focus Online , March 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Visser, Carel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Visser, Carel Nicolaas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Papendrecht , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2015
Place of death Le Fousseret , France