Joost Baljeu | |
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Born | Middelburg, Netherlands | 2 November 1925
Died | 1 July 1991 Amsterdam, Netherlands | (aged 65)
Nationality | Dutch |
Occupation | Artist |
Known for | Steel structures |
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.
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, Joost Baljeu, 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]