Pieter Stoop

Pieter Stoop is a Dutch painter of large abstract paintings.

Pieter Stoop
Signature of Pieter Stoop 1983
Born18-01-1946
Breda, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
EducationAcademy of Catholic Education, Jan van Eyck Academy
Known forPainting
AwardsWinner – Prize for the Visual Arts of the city of Maastricht
1972

Pieter Stoop acquired his artistic education at the Academy of Catholic Education, Tilburg (1962–1966) and at the Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht (1966–1972).[1] At the end of his studies he obtained the Prize for the Visual Arts of the city of Maastricht (1972), and later on he received financial support to do a study trip to Morocco (prins Bernhard Fonds, 1974), and to New York City en Mexico (travel grant CRM, 1979). Specialised in painting and sculpture and influenced by Soutine, Willem de Kooning and Bram van Velde, the artist revolutionized painting with “Nieuwe Schilderijen”. This school conceived art according exclusively to its materiality. Stoop focused on the painting materials and applied them thickly layer after layer to achieve a thick quality on the canvas.

“The essence is not that Pieter Stoop takes the landscape as his starting point; what matters is how the movement of paint and colour transforms the surface into something else: the painter’s art. Pieter Stoop makes beautifully modulated paintings.” R. H. Fuchs[2]

Large canvases constitute his working sphere, which are dealt with through a long process that brings the artist to alternate oil painting with small-format drawings and acrylic paintings to make a quick sketch. Pieter Stoop does currently live in Eindhoven.

Studies

1962-1966 Academy of Fine Art, Tilburg, Netherlands. 1966-1972 Jan van Eyck-Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Museum collections
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam[3]
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven[4]
  • Centraal Museum, Utrecht[5]
Without Title, 1983, Oil on Canvas, Size 210cm x 155cm.

References
  1. Jacobs, P.M.J. Beeldend Nederland: biografisch handboek {2}, Tilburg: P.M.J. Jacobs, 1993, p. 438. All the specific biographical information comes from the same source.
  2. Fuchs, Rudi. Pieter Stoop, Amsterdam: Wetering Galerie, 1987
  3. "Pieter Stoop". Stedelijk. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  4. "Pieter Stoop: Schilderijen". Van Abbe Museum. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  5. "Pieter Stoop". Centraal Museum, Utrecht. Retrieved 17 March 2022.


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