Jan van der Vaart, White porcelain object, Rosenthal, 1990s

This low model has the typical stylistic signature of Van der Vaart with its geometric angular shape. The work is marked on the bottom. Jan van der Vaart belongs to the first generation of ceramic artists that revived the practice of ceramics in the Netherlands in the 1950s. He introduced a new vision on form and colour based on the Bauhaus tradition. When he gets appointed to head teacher of ceramics on the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, his influence on the development of Dutch ceramics is easy to trace. Around fifteen years later his work is internationally acknowledged.