'Composition with a hole’ mid-1960s

Location: Vertigo, floor 2. 

The ceramist, sculptor, graphic artist, draughtsman and photographer Theo Dobbelman (1906-1984) studied chemistry in Fribourg (Switzerland), where he also obtained a PhD. This son of a Nijmegen soap manufacturer said farewell to the business community in 1945, however, and became a visual artist. He was not really influenced by the abstract trends in art and the Cobra movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Even though Dobbelman made abstract sculptures at a later age, as is visible in this sculpture at the TU/e, he was not an innovator in the world of art.

Important in particular was his work as head of the experimental department of de Porceleyne Fles. In this pottery in Delft he experimented as of 1956 with new techniques and with design. In this way he contributed to ceramic being regarded as an autonomous form of art.

See also:
Vubis database