Education
Form 1921 to 1927 he attended the evening art classes in sculpting.
Form 1921 to 1927 he attended the evening art classes in sculpting.
Born in Schiedam, Van Stuivenberg received his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Sciences now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam. Van Stuivenberg started his sculptor career as stonemason, and was first influenced by the expressionism and later abstract working with geometric shapes and tighter. In Rotterdam he jointed the art society R33, which was founded in 1933 and dismantled in 1941.
He made study trips to Brussels, London and Paris.
In the Netherlands he subsequently joined the artist group Vrije Beelden (Free Images), founded by the Rotterdam artists Koos van Vlijmen and Wout van Heusden and others in 1946. And he joined the group Creatie (Creation), in 1950 founded by Willy Boers en Ger Gerrits.
In 1950 his work was represented at the fifth Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. His work is in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
1950 Rotterdam: Zonder titel, Gedempte Zalmhaven (his first abstract sculpture in Rotterdam made for the Rotterdam Bouwcentrum)
1957 Schiedam: Drie kinderen, Burg. van Harenlaan (De Hoeksteen)
1965 Rotterdam: Zonder titel, an abstract marble plastic intended for Tench Square in Rotterdam-Hoogvliet
1968 Schiedam: Geborgenheid
1970 Rotterdam: Dolle Jans droom (1969), Steiger
1977 Schiedam: Moeder en kind, Grote Markt.