Sorry no portrait photo this time!
He was trained as a ceramic painter, but Frans van Katwijk (1893-1952), resident of Gouda, developed into an artistic director at the Plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven. In 1927-1928, he made his breakthrough with the development of art glazes. Presumably, first on hand-turned terracotta, mainly with a matte green glaze, later he excelled with a sparkling color palette that was extremely exuberant for the time of the crisis. Further research reveals that in the first half of 1928, Van Katwijk was a visiting student at the Institute for Applied Arts in Amsterdam, studying ceramics under Bert Nienhuis. In the early 1930s, it appears that he was influenced in terms of design by Fons Decker, a designer at Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland.
www.ftn-books.com has some lieterature available on van Katwijk and the plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven and van Katwijk
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