Johann van den Noort (1940)

Johann van den NOORT (Kampen 1940)

Johann van den noort is driven by the sea in his work, especially the way in which he gives shape and content to that passion, makes him an expressionist abstract artist who has conquered his own place in the current art world.

After a technical education, he studied drawing and painting at the Royal Evening Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, 1961-1962. Afterwards, he was self-taught. Johann van den Noort lives and works in Kampen.

JOHANN VAN DEN NOORT is a Dutch visual artist and inventor. As a lyrical abstract artist, he has inextricably linked his oeuvre with his bond with the sea. Van den Noort is a Renaissance man who seeks and finds the added value of art, science and life in exciting cross-pollinations. His civil engineering innovations provide solutions to global problems that all have something to do with water . As an artist, Van den Noort alone occupies a special position in contemporary visual art. But there's more. Not only the fact that he is driven by the sea, especially the way in which he gives shape and content to that passion, makes him an artist who has conquered his own place in contemporary painting and sculpture. JOHANNN VAN DEN NOORT masters many techniques such as: oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache, various graphic techniques, ceramics and sculpture. His total oeuvre includes more than 4000 works. There are many publications of his in art magazines, newspapers and catalogs and for radio and TV. Most of his work is in various art collections around the world. Johann van den Noort was nominated as artist of the year 2003.

Anyone who assumes that Van den Noort operates as an inventor in a strictly separated field of activity does both the artist and the inventor a disservice. After all, the power of Renaissance man lies in thinking and working across borders. The common thread in everything he does is: water. But within that thematic limitation, he claims all the freedom he deems necessary to use his talents and insights in projects that make a valuable, inventive contribution to solving world problems. Like his innovative projects, his works of art also arise from the experience of everything that has to do with water. Here too it is all about enriching our existence with fresh ideas, special finds and insights and unexpected solutions. For van den Noort, every work of art is an invention and every invention is a work of art. Johann van den Noort is often called: “the Leonardo Da Vinci of the twenty-first century”.

JOHANN VAN DEN NOORT received many international awards for his innovations, such as the coveted EDISON AWARD in America in May 2013 for his design of the Twin Wing Tsunami Barrier.

In 2005 he received the Royal decoration of "Knight in the ORDE of the DUTCH LION" for his total oeuvre. In 2014 he received the Honorary LEG PENNING in silver from the municipality of Kampen.