Career
According to German Thimo, author of Modern Ceramics in the Netherlands (1990), Quist" pots, bowls and boxes witnesses "a noble simplicity."
Quist got educated as handicrafts teacher at the received Roman Catholic Society for Handicraft in Breda from 1967 to 1972. In the summers of 1977 and 1978 he was a trainee at the Danish ceramicist Clara Andersen (1944) in Aarhus, Denmark. After his graduation Quist was appointed teacher of applied art and art history at the Gymnasium Middelburg, and started a studio in the Pijpenstraat in Middelburg.
In 2012 he sold his studio, and suffered from various illnesses that were ultimately fatal to him.
He had donated his entire legacy to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam including his houw "Not Altyd Somer" in Middelburg, art works, antiques and paintings, and his library of on ceramics, which contained 140.000 items. in public collections
Fonds régional d"art contemporain, Limoges, France
Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Art Gesellschaft Spiez, Spiez, Switzerland
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center, Washington, United States
Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands.
