Teun Jacob

Twiggy, Tilburg 1967.
Rotterdam relief children

Teunis (Teun) Jacob (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]

Born in Rheden, 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 he worked as independent artist in Rotterdam. In 1957 Jacob and Ru van Rossem (1924-2007)[3] had a major exhibition of his work in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.[4][5]

In 1971 he was exhibition architect of the Brussels Pavilion and Downhill Palace in the Park of Culture and Rest Julius Fucik in Prague.[6] Later in the 1970s, in cooperation with Dutch sculptor Kees Verschuren, Jacob created a massive land art project at the first Maasvlakte, entitled Steen in water (Rock in Water).[7] This industrial area in the Port of Rotterdam was built on the land, reclaiming from the North Sea in the 1960s. 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.[8]

Over the year he was also lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy.[9]

References

  1. Teun Jacob; wall painter, sculptor at rkd.nl, 2015.
  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. Exhibition entitled "Plastiek en grafisch werk van Teun Jacob en Ru van Rossem. 17 maart-28 april, 1958." Source: Rotterdams jaarboekje, (1958), p. 54
  5. Peter Buisman. Kunst in Ommoord in Kleur. 2010. p. 57
  6. 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.
  7. Documentary "Steen in water", by Fello Films at vimeo.com, 2014.
  8. "Steen in Water, exhibition," at TENT, Rotterdam, 2014
  9. Teunis Jacob, at artindex.nl, 2015.

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