Description
Pieter Groeneveldt (Batavia, March 27, 1889 – Noordwijkerhout, October 19, 1982) was an artist, ceramist, poet, and pottery manufacturer. He trained as a painter at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, where he was taught by Antoon Derkinderen and Nicolaas van der Waay. Disappointed with his work as a portrait painter—he wanted to create characteristic portraits, but his clientele in The Hague only wished to see idealized images—he opened a flower shop, Sheherazade. He enjoyed transforming his floral arrangements into ceramics. This brought him into contact with the Amphora factory. He made his first pottery at the Amphora Tile and Fayance Factory in Oegstgeest, where he received pottery wheel lessons from Gerrit de Blanken. Around 1925, he had his own studio in Wassenaar. Since 1927, he had a workshop in Voorschoten on the Donklaan, where the Groeneveldt pottery factory was founded in 1938. After the bankruptcy in 1973, the factory was taken over by Delfos, which itself went bankrupt in 1987. In the last ten years of his life, Pieter Groeneveldt created many unique pieces, working from his house with a conservatory in Voorschoten. This period is known as the conservatory period. The Museum Voorschoten possesses a large Groeneveldt collection following the acquisition of the Lamboo collection and the Briët collection.
This vase is in very good condition, beautiful glazes, h. 27, diameter 20, marked with the 1952-1972 mark
