Better, I love those views. Nothing more than the essential.
No wonder that the minimal art movement : ``Zero or Nul `` was verry populair in our country .
https://www.henkbroeke.com/blog/kunst-minimalisme-jan-schoonhoven
Translation:
Jan Schoonhoven 1914-1994
Is one of the leading Dutch minimalist artists of the 20th century. He was born in Delft and would live there all his life.
Jan Schoonhoven excelled in drawing at an early age and he attended the Royal Academy in The Hague.
In 1934 he completed the training m.o. sign off.
His work became increasingly abstract and soon the first horizontal and vertical arrangements emerged. He hasn't had much success with it yet.
In 1946 he joined the PTT in The Hague, where he would continue to work until his retirement.
In his spare time he continued to develop as an artist.
The Informal Group and the Zero Group
In 1958, the Nederlandse Informele Groep was founded in the Schoonhoven house. Jan Schoonhoven, Henk Peeters, Armando, Jan Henderikse and Kees van Bohemen wanted to push back the artist's personal influence.
Schoonhoven made his first reliefs from ribbed cardboard and developed them into his architectural reliefs.
In 1960 the Informal Group became the Nul Group.
He wanted to limit the artist's personal influence even further by isolating and repeating everyday objects, or parts of them.
Reliefs with geometric shapes in repetition
Jan Schoonhoven was inspired by details from the streetscape of Delft, such as fences and roof tiles.
He repeated those geometric shapes, making it special. Light and shadow played an important role in this.
In 1967 he won second prize at the Sao Paulo Biennale.
It meant his breakthrough in the international art circuit.
Soon he could no longer keep up with the demand for reliefs and had to leave their execution to assistants
Due to a fall over a sidewalk in Delft, Jan Schoonhoven spent his last years in Huyse van St. Christoffel. In 1994 he died, aged 80.
Ian