Joost Baljeu (1 November 1925 – 1 July 1991)[1] was a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer. He is known for his large outdoor painted steel structures and his book on Theo van Doesburg.

Life

Joost Baljeu was born in Middelburg on 1 November 1925. During World War II (1939–45) he began painting in an expressionist, realistic and semi-abstract idiom. After Cubism he evolved to constructivism. He made his first reliefs in 1954-55. From 1957 to 1972 he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in the Hague.[2] The Canadian artist Eli Bornstein began to make three-dimensional "structurist" reliefs during a sabbatical in Italy and the Netherlands in 1957.[3] He met and was influenced by artists such as Jean Gorin, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore and Georges Vantongerloo.[4]

In 1958-59 Baljeu was a guest lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In 1966 he was visiting professor at the Minneapolis School of Art in the US. He died on 1 July 1991 in Amsterdam.[2]

Work

Space Time I in Rotterdam

Exhibitions

Museums

The Sculpture F26 1990 was donated to the museum in 1991 by Baljeu's widow.

Public spaces

Synthetic construction F8-1B, The Hague
  • Lightning (1955), Wijkcentrum Open Vaart, Meidoornplein in Amsterdam-Noord
  • Synthetic construction F8-1B (1978), Plesmanweg, The Hague
  • Wall sculpture (1980), police Burg. Wegstapel Square in Zoetermeer (architectural design of colored plexiglass panels in a two-story aluminum construction)
  • Synthetic construction F11 (1981), courtyard Vest in Dordrecht - reinstated in 1999
  • Synthetic construction F13 (1984), Avenue of the United Nations in Dordrecht - reinstated in 1999
  • F26 (1990) in the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo
  • Spacetime (I) (1989) in Rotterdam, Prince Alexander district
  • Spacetime II (restored in 2004) in Rotterdam, Prince Alexander

Publications

  • Mondrian or Miró (1958): book published by De Beuk, Amsterdam
  • Structure (1958-1964): editor of a journal on new art
  • Attempt at a theory of synthesist plastic expression (1963): book published by Alec Tiranti, London
  • Theo van Doesburg (1974): book published by Studio Vista, London

References

Citations

  1. ^ "Joost Baljeu". www.kunstbus.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b Biografie Joost Baljeu, Galerie Witteveen.
  3. ^ Ivanochko 2014.
  4. ^ Moppet 2008.

Sources

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_Baljeu
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