Education
From 1948 until 1949 Visser studied architecture at the Technical University in Delft and subsequently from 1949 until 1951 sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague.
From 1948 until 1949 Visser studied architecture at the Technical University in Delft and subsequently from 1949 until 1951 sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague.
He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture. After study in England and France, he settled as an independent artist in 1952 in Amsterdam. In his early career Visser created originally styled iron bird sculptures and had his first solo exhibition in 1954 at Galerie Martinet in Amsterdam.
In 1957, when his artistic style became more abstract, a new period began in which he made several trips: a study trip to Italy (Sardinia) on a scholarship from the Italian government in 1957.
A stay as a visiting professor at Washington University in Saint Louis in 1962. And a study trip to Mexico on a Dutch government scholarship in 1965.
Visser was a lecturer at the Royal Academy in The Hague from 1958 to 1962. In the same year a documentary film about his work was made by Jonne Severijn.
In 1981 Visser settled in Rijswijk (Gelderland).
From 1966 to 1998 he was Professor at the Ateliers "63 in Haarlem. Visser died on March 1, 2015 at the age of 86. 1950s
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