Karel Sluijterman

From 1888 to 1891, Sluijterman worked in Paris at the Franco-Dutch architect-decorator Eduard Johan Niermans (1859-1928), where he got acquainted with the French floral Art Nouveau.

This new style would greatly influence his work, though not all of his designs can be rank under the art nouveau.

In 1895 Sluyterman became a Professor at the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he taught decorative art and theory of ornaments.

In 1901 Sluyterman became teacher ornament drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem.

In 1900 he creates with the architect Johan Mutters the Dutch pavilion in the Art Nouveau style for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris.