Chris Lanooy

Johannes Christiaan "Chris" Lanooy (16 March 1881 – 24 January 1948) was a Dutch potter and designer, who worked as ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art.

[1] Lanooy was born in Sint-Annaland i 1881 as son of Cornelis Lanooij and Janna van 't Hof.

Lanooy studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and was a student of the Roermond architect and artist Pierre Cuypers and Gouda painter and art teacher Jan Lugthart.

The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden has more than a hundred works of Lanooy in the collection.

[3] This exhibition was opened by the then Minister of Culture, Recreation and Social work, Harry van Doorn.