Piet van Stuivenberg

[1] 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 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 1967 Van Stuivenberg received the Hendrik Chabot Award, and in 1981 and 1994[3] a retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.