|
1962 |
Moves to Zwijndrecht, on the riverside
across from Dordrecht |
|
1963 |
Back to Long Beach California and Studies
art (ceramics) and Language (Russian) at California State University at Long
Beach |
|
1965 |
Meets the Dutch environmental sculptor
Joop Beljon during a sculpture symposium on the campus in Long Beach.
Returns to Holland at the end of the year |
|
1966 |
Studies for a teaching degree in art at
the Tilburg School of Art |
|
1967 |
Makes first work composed of different
units, calculating their proportions to have the same volume |
|
1968 |
Receives his first commission for a large
bronze work, discoid form |
|
1969 |
Graduates and enters the last year of
sculpture class at the Rotterdam Art Academy |
|
1969 |
First one man exhibition of sculpture in
the office of Dicke Architects in Dordrecht |
|
1969 |
Teaches at a secondary school in
Zwijndrecht for two years |
|
1969 |
Receives his first commission for an
environmental project, garden and fountain, for the DSW plant in Dordrecht |
|
1970 |
Graduates and receives the Rotterdam Art
Foundation Threshold Prize |
|
1970 |
Meets Henry Moore and his wife Irina for
the first time in Forte Dei Marmi, Italy |
|
1971 |
Start of membership of various
organizations and government committees |
|
1971 |
Visits Irina and Henry Moore at their
summer house in Forte Dei Marmi |
|
1972 |
became a member of the board of the Dutch
Sculptors'Association |
|
1972 |
First work, perpendicular cylinders 2, in
which he uses a transitional stage as the final work |
|
1972 |
Makes lines on the surface of curved
glass planes in order to create spatial linear forms |
|
1973 |
Receives a grant from the Arie Scheffer
Foundation |
|
1973 |
Works in Plexiglas with Vera Röhm in
Darmstadt, Germany |
|
1974 |
Works in marble in Querceta, Italy, at
Henraux, where he is introduced by Henry Moore |
|
1976 |
Makes first works without a closed
interior, having open curved planes, called the planes, junction series |
|
1977 |
Is professor of sculpture at the Rietveld
Art Academy in Amsterdam for two years |
|
1978 |
Participates in the Tenth Sculpture
Conference in Toronto, Canada |
|
1979 |
Secretary of the Dutch Sculptors'
Association for five years |
|
1979 |
Marries Lidwien Kuster |
|
1981 |
Professor of sculpture at the Royal
Academy of Art in Den Haag for two years |
|
1981 |
Meets the glass artist Andries Copier in
Delft |
