Gerrit Rietveld
Dutch furniture designer and architect of De Stijl.
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He became a member of the De Stijl movement in 1919 and designed the iconic Red and Blue Chair in 1917.[1] In August 1888, a joiner's son named Gerrit Rietveld was born in Utrecht.[2] At age 11, Rietveld ended his schooling to become an apprentice to his father, and later, from 1906 to 1911, he worked as a draughtsman for Utrecht jeweller C. J. Begeer.[2]
Life and work
He set up business as a cabinet-maker and started his own furniture factory in 1918.[3][1] He changed the chair's colors after being influenced by De Stijl, joining the movement in 1919.[1] The house has a conventional ground floor but a radical top floor with sliding walls instead of fixed walls.[4] He set up a partnership in 1961 with Johan van Dillen and J. van Tricht to handle many projects.[5]
Having taught himself drawing, painting, and model-making, Rietveld established his own furniture workshop in 1917.[3] The Rietveld Schröder House, built in 1924 on Prins Hendriklaan 50 in Utrecht, was a collaboration between Rietveld and the owner Truus Schröder-Schräder.[4] Beginning in the late 1920s, Rietveld's work concentrated on social housing, prefabrication, and the use of new materials.[5] A retrospective exhibition on De Stijl, designed by Rietveld in 1951, was presented in Amsterdam, Venice, and New York.[6]
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The IAWA represents over 2000 cubic feet divided into around 450 collections.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Red Blue Chair (1923) Museum of Modern Art, New York. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alice Rawthorn (17 October 2010), "Design's Odd Man Out Gets Moment in the Sun", The New York Times.; "Gerrit Rietveld", Museum of Modern Art, New York. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fleming, John, et al. (1972) The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture; 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin; pp. 237-38 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Han Schroeder: Architectural Papers, 1926-1998", International Archive of Women in Architecture. Retrieved 28 February 2012. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gerrit Rietveld", Van Gogh Museum (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gerrit Rietveld" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sculpture Garden at the Kröller Müller Museum (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Han Schroeder: Architectural Papers, 1926-1998", International Archive of Women in Architecture. Retrieved 28 February 2012.. facts only, no text reused. spec.lib.vt.edu
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