Background
Joost Baljeu was born in Middelburg on 1 November 1925.
architect painter sculptor writer
Joost Baljeu was born in Middelburg on 1 November 1925.
He is known for his large outdoor painted steel structures. During World World War II (1939-1945) he began painting in an expressionist, realistic and semi-abstract idiom. After Cubism he evolved to constructivism.
He made his first reliefs in 1954-1955.
From 1957 to 1972 he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in the Hague. The Canadian artist Eli Bornstein began to make three-dimensional "structurist" reliefs during a sabbatical in Italy and the Netherlands in 1957.
He met and was influenced by artists such as Jean Gorin, Joost Baljeu, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin, Victor Pasmore and Georges Vantongerloo. In 1958-1959 Baljeu was a guest lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
In 1966 he was visiting professor at the Minneapolis School of Art in the United States. He died on 1 July 1991 in Amsterdam.
The Sculpture F26 1990 was donated to the museum in 1991 by Baljeu"s widow. Public spaces Lightning (1955), Wijkcentrum Open Vaart, Meidoornplein in Amsterdam-Noord Synthetic construction F8-1B (1978), Plesmanweg Hague Wall sculpture (1980), police Burg. Wegstapel Square in Zoetermeer (architectural design of colored plexiglass panels in an two-story aluminum construction) Synthetic construction F11 (1981), courtyard Vest in Dordrecht - reinstated in 1999 Synthetic construction F13 (1984), Avenue of the United Nations in Dordrecht - reinstated in 1999 F26 (1990) in the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo Spacetime (I) (1989) in Rotterdam, Prince Alexander district Spacetime II (restored in 2004) n Rotterdam, Prince Alexander.