David van de Kop - watercolor: landscape - Sold

Watercolor by David van der Kop. Without title. Tabletop dimensions: H12 x W18cm. The work is unsigned. Shipping: Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday. The work can be sent, at your own risk, as letterbox mail for 5.95 euros. From 1956 to 1961, Van de Kop studied sculpture with, among others, Carel Visser at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and continued his studies from 1963 to 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. From 1968 to 1981 Van de Kop taught at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch and from 1981 to 1987 he headed the sculpture department of the post-academic institute Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. David van de Kop died on September 14, 1994 in his hometown of Dreischor from the consequences of a heart attack. Van de Kop, following his teacher Carel Visser, mainly worked with steel in his early work. The work from that time is mainly constructivist. He himself called these works 'framing provisions'. In the 1970s he broke with his earlier constructivist work and increasingly worked with clay, from which he made large ceramic sculptures in bright colours. The great plasticity of clay gave him the opportunity to design in a more playful, intuitive and organic way. These works are usually made up of several parts, which were joined together after firing to form the larger whole. In later years, Van de Kop worked more with rough-worked wood and made 'stacks' of various fragments and materials, which he sometimes painted in colour. Sources of inspiration for him included Greek mythology (Leda with the Swan, Danaë, Eros, Dionysos), Magdalena and the landscape of Zeeland