Johnny Rolf
Dutch ceramist, drawing artist and sculptor (born 1936)
About Johnny Rolf
Born 1936. Johnny Rolf is a Dutch ceramicist, draftsperson and sculptor.
Johanna Jacoba (Johnny) Rolf (born 30 September 1936, in The Hague) is a Dutch ceramist, drawing artist and sculptor.
Life and work Rolf was educated into the pottery profession by Jan de Rooden, with whom she started a studio in 1958 and married. One of her students was the Dutch ceramist Mariet Schmidt, born in Schiedam in 1935.
In 1962 Rolf took part of an exhibition of six young ceramists from Amsterdam in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, together with Hans de Jong, Sonja Landweer, Johan van Loon, Jan de Rooden and Jan van der Vaart, which signified the rebirth of artisan ceramics in the Netherlands. In 1966 she was visiting designer at the Gustavsberg porcelain factory in Zweden. Princessehof Ceramics Museum Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Dutch ceramist, drawing artist and sculptor (born 1936)
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Johnny Rolf was born on 30 September 1936 in The Hague.
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Johnny Rolf is a ceramicist, draftsperson and sculptor.
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Johnny Rolf is Dutch.
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