Vilma Henkelman

Vilma Maria Helena Henkelman (born 15 October 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch sculptor, ceramist,[1] and photographer.[2]

Bandenpot No. 3 door Vilma Henkelman, 1981

Live and work

Born in Rotterdam, Henkelman took pottery lessons from Emmy van Deventer,[3] and studied ceramic design at the Free Academy in The Hague. In 1976 she started working as assistant in the pottery factory Groeneveldt. In 1969 she started her own studio in The Hague at the Bagijnstraat. In 1975 moved to Amsterdam, where she started a studio and gallery at the Veerkade. From 1989 to 1995 she ran an own studio in Vlaardingen.[2]

A 1985 exhibition brochure summarized, that "in her free plastic forms she wants above all to express the essence of the primordial matter. In order to show the strength and vitality of the clay, therefore, they do not use a glaze... she works with pottery clay and forms with a quick twist technique. She bakes in an electric furnace to 1020 degrees." [4]

Her work is in the collection of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwaarden.

gollark: It completely freezes, not even my system tray clock works.
gollark: I do want it to swap, just not to the point of freezing.
gollark: It's run out of enough RAM to actually do anything ever in such cases.
gollark: It just swaps utterly.
gollark: I run out of memory quite often because I underprovisioned RAM.

See also

References
  1. American Ceramic Society (1991), Ceramics Monthly, Vol. 39, p. 23
  2. Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
  3. Vilma Henkelman at capriolus.nl, 2015.
  4. Nederlandse keramiek 85 De Elleboogkerk - expositiebrochure, Amersfoort 1985. Cited at capriolus.nl, 2015.

Further reading
  • Berkhof, José . Céramique néerlandaise contemporaine = Contemporary Dutch ceramics = Niederländische Keramik der Gegenwart. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, 1988.
  • Henkelman, Vilma. Vilma Henkelman. Dienst Beeldende Kunst, 1985.
  • Klein, Christhilde. 5 keramisten : Simone ten Bosch, Jackie Bouw, Susanne Hahn, Vilma Henkelman, Jos Verwiel. Frans Halsmuseum, 1984.
  • Kuijl, Aart van der. Ceramic circle : Vilma Henkelman ... et al. Stichting Ceramic Circle, 1996.
  • Winnie Teschmacher, Vilma Henkelman. The garden of delight : beauty in ceramics. Vlaardingen : Stichting Ceramic Circle, 1999.
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