Piet Killaars

Piet Killaars (Tegelen, 17 October 1922) is a Dutch sculptor.



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[hide] *1 life and work  ==Life and work[ Edit] ==
 * 2 works (selection)
 * 3 Photo Gallery
 * 4 Literature
 * 5 see also
 * 6 external link

Piet Wilhelmus Kaan resigned in 1939 in the service of a local ceramic company where a new arts and Crafts Department was started. Artists was the opportunity to perform their work in ceramics . Of this possibility was used by among others: Charles Eyck, Suzanne Nicholas, Wim van Hoorn and Wim Harzing. Kaan had the task of these artists technical support. [1]  he attended drawing classes at Sef Moonen in Venlo and evening classes sculpture at Victor Sajid in Tegelen. Kaan went in 1941 to Maastricht, where he from 1941 to 1943 at Charles Fox (1888-1954) studied arts and crafts to the secondary school. He provided his living by joining a ceramic Studio in Maastricht to work. He carried out his first works of art in ceramics from 1944, as Weeklagende woman . Between 1943 and 1944 he went into hiding, first in Really and later in Tegelen.

After the liberation he made various trips and worked at several sculptors in Netherlands and Belgium. In 1948 he made a study trip to France, where he got to know the work of sculptors such as Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Alberto Giacomettiand Germaine Richier . Afterwards he continued his training at the Jan van Eyck Academy atOscar Jespers (1887-1970). He graduated cum laude in 1953. From 1967 to 1970 he was Professor of environmental design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Building in Tilburg and from 1970 to 1986 Professor of sculpture to the city Academy of applied arts in Maastricht. Kaan's work is characterized by the so-called figurative geometry, but unquestionably that harks back to the patterns in nature. ==Works (selection)[ Edit] ==


 * 1949 War Memorial 1940-1945 in Roelofarendsveen
 * 1950 Phoenix in Tegelen
 * 1955 Gevallenen monument in Tegelen
 * 1959 Sheet weavers, behind the barracks in Maastricht
 * 1965 Travelers in Venlo
 * 1966 Energy in Tegelen
 * 1968 the making[2] , Eindhoven University of technology in Eindhoven
 * 1968 Madsen, stairs Stikke Hezelstraat in Nijmegen
 * 1970 Bridge image, Boender daler bridge in Alkmaar
 * 1970 Movement in space, golf, Cross Street in Heerlen
 * 1976 Movement in space "spiral", first exhibited at images on the Mountain in 1976, since then Duivendaal in Wageningen
 * 1977 Twisted movement in Hilversum
 * 1978 Bust J.J.F. Bal/Peter South, Museum park in Overloon
 * 1981 Spiral II, Groene Hilledijk in Rotterdam
 * 1982 Rhythm, gold rose in Zwolle
 * 1983 Flow in Tegelen
 * 1986 Movement in space, home Province Limburg (the Government) in Maastricht
 * 1986 Circle in Hoogeveen
 * Untitled, 1988 MECC in Maastricht
 * 1997 Inner Circle (Quadripartite) in Tegelen
 * 1997 Line in motion ', Parkweg in Maastricht