R 77-11, 1977 and R 77-12, 1977

Cardboard, paper and latex on wood 140 x 125 cm each

"My work is a kind of organization. Organizing elements in a way that it does not change the nature of the elements, but empowers them, creating a new whole entity, the essence of which does not contradict the essence of the original element." 

Jan J. Schoonhoven

Born 1914 in Delft, Netherlands.

Graduated as a drawing teacher at the Academy of Den Haag, Netherlands.

In the 1960s he was a co-founder of the Dutch Informal Group nul (Null). The name is an answer to the German group ZERO and implies a new understanding of art. Their intention was to create a new objective art, deprived of emotional aspects, and in which the presence of the artist as a person disappears.

1967 Jan’s work won the second prize at the Biennale de São Paulo.

Presented at the Documenta IV (1968) and 6 (1977) in Kassel.

Died 1994 in Delft.