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As part of the ongoing exhibition Ground Hope at the Silver Museum, Danika Halley, trainee working at the museum, organized a lecture and tour by Jan van Nouhuys for the students of the Vocational School for Gold, Silver and Clockworks (Vakschool) in collaboration with one of the students.
After explaining and showing on video a number of techniques and work processes, Jan took the students along the showcases at the exhibition with varied objects and answered questions on how they were made.
The exhibition 'Ground Hope' in the Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven has been extended until 9 January 2022.
The museum in this picturesque small old Dutch town is open from 11.00 - 17.00 hours Tuesday - Sunday.
After months of having been closed, the museum decided to extend the exhibition in order for people to have the chance to view this unique collection.
It was a festive occasion indeed when Alexander Pechtold, known to many as the leader of the D66 liberal party, a position he held for many years, and great lover of silver, opened the exhibition 'Ground Hope' by handing over a copy of the book Jan van Nouhuys Silver Art to Jan.
In a substantive speech he cites three quotes from Jan out of the book to analyse Jans work and Jan as a person.
Marcel Teheux, director of the Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven had started of with a humoristic and to the point speech.
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The exhibition Ground Hope can be visited from today 5th June onwards in the Silvermuseum in Schoonhoven.
If you click on the link below you will find the information you need to pay a visit to the museum.
Krimpenerwaard TV has made a film of 10 minutes about the exhibition 'Ground Hope' in the Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven.
The show is on and has been on, but could not be visited so far due to Covid-19. Hopefully it will be possible to visit soon.
On 18th February 2021 the book on the 40 years that Jan van Nouhuys worked as a silversmith will be launched.
This will take place as part of the opening of the exhibition 'Ground Hope' with work by Jan van Nouhuys at the Nederlands Zilvermuseum Schoonhoven.
After two-and-a-half weeks Friday 19 July the Masterclass 2019 drew to a close.
Wednesday 3 July the seven participants met up with Jan van Nouhuys and Kees Oele, teacher silversmithing at the Vakschool, for an opening dinner. The next two days were spent talking over the designs and calculating the amount of material needed - silver, brass, titanium.
Ten full days of solid hard work followed.
Monday 25 June 2018 an article appeared in the Volkskrant about the new exhibition in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : Kwab - Dutch design in de eeuw van Rembrandt (Auricular style - Dutch design in the age of Rembrandt).
It will run from 30 June until 16 September.
This very Dutch style is explained with humor. The writer has based the article on information by Reinier Baarsen, who made the exhibition, Joosje van Bennekom and Jan van Nouhuys.
October 2017 the 'Embassy of the Free Mind' was opened in a historical building, Huis met de hoofden (House with the Heads) at Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam.
It is a meeting place where wisdom from all over the world has been gathered and is being gathered, where images and texts tell the personal stories of the free minds of human history.
Sinds kort is het archief van de Stichting Zilver in Beweging ondergebracht bij de RKD - Nederlands instituut voor kunstgeschiedenis.
Dit is gebeurd via bemiddeling van Dr. Eric Domela Nieuwenhuis, Curator, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.
The passer-by in the narrow street in Schoonhoven where STUDIO 925 is located, will be met by the noises that can only be associated with silversmithing.
At this moment the Masterclass 2017 is in full swing. Two young silversmiths from the UK and three from The Netherlands are working hard on their designs.
From July 31 until Auguyst 11 2017 a masterclass will be given by silversmith Jan van Nouhuys.
This is the fourth consecutive year for the Masterclass to be held, the last three of which were generously sponsored by the Stichting Strand Links.
One week ago the exhibition Zilverkunst in Nederland (Silver Art in The Netherlands) opened in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. The hall was packed with people, all, in one way or another, connected with this relatively new art form. Annabelle Birnie, director of the Drents Museum, gave the opening speech.
The exhibition will run for four months, 16 April to 21 August 2016.
For more information visit www.gemeentemuseum.nl/tentoonstellingen/zilverkunst
These days the unsuspected passer-by in the small street where the STUDIO 925 workshop is located, is met by the sound of hammers falling down on silver - a rather thrilling sound when you walk in the silvertown.
Five participants, graduated in silversmithing, are making an object designed by themselves with the guidance of silversmith Jan van Nouhuys.
Today exactly 40 years ago, 12 January 1976, Jan van Nouhuys started out as a silversmith in The Hague. His workshop was an idyllic, run-down and affordable little place in a secluded courtyard in the centre of the town. He could not have imagined that 40 years later he would find himself in Schoonhoven, with a spacious workshop and a beautiful gallery adjacent to his home opposite the street.
Moments of exhilaration and of despair mark the road in between.
This time in Dutch - as it was a very Dutch occasion - the reveiling of two works of art by silversmith Jan van Nouhuys at two roundabouts in Schoonhoven - the well known silvertown.
Vijf jaar nadat er een commissie was opgericht van enkele Schoonhovense inwoners met het doel kunstwerken geplaatst te krijgen op de rotondes die de bezoeker direct duidelijk maken dat hij in de Zilverstad is beland, vond de onthulling van twee hiervan plaats.
This is a short film (when you click on 'Read full text") in which Jan van Nouhuys explains why it is important that five works of art will be placed on the roundabouts in Schoonhoven.
Two of his designs were selected by an art committee (Het Beeldgebouw), alongside three other designs by two other designers; the three of them are member of the Schoonhoven guild of gold- and silversmiths St. Eloy.
10 October 2015 the works by Jan van Nouhuys will be unveiled.
Since March 2nd four young silversmiths are taking part in a masterclass given by Jan van Nouhuys.
They are in the process of making their own designs, which were talked over ahead of time.
Their enthusiasm is boundless and working days are getting longer and longer.
In the October issue of the magazine VIND - a magazine in the field of history, archeology, art and antique - a significant number of pages is dedicated to the forthcoming PAN Fair in Amsterdam.
The National Silverday lies behind us. More than 22.000 people visited Schoonhoven this day with beautiful though extremely hot weather.
It was the 30th time the National Silverday was organized, and for that reason the Commissaris van de Koning of the province of Zuid-Holland opened it by unveiling a tile in the pavement in front of the impressive house of a 19th century silversmith.
From 24 March to 4 April five young silversmiths who had finished their study at the Vakschool Schoonhoven, took part in a two-week masterclass given by Jan van Nouhuys.
They came along with their own designs, which had been talked over before the masterclass started.
Making use of the equipment of Van Nouhuys' workshop, they worked extremely hard to realize their designs.
Bir Muste, a Schoonhoven based dealer in gemstones, took the initiative to get together a promotion committee to decorate Schoonhoven's many roundabouts with works of art that convey the message : you are in the silver town.
The committee organized a design contest among all members of the Gold- and Silversmiths' Guild St. Eloy. Three designers were selected to work out their sculptures, with all the practical details: Esther van Vliet, Ruud Vos and Jan van Nouhuys. Now funds need to be found to finance it all.
The cover of the November issue of the art magazine COLLECT features one of Jan van Nouhuys' Möbius objects.
In the article about the PAN Fair for which every gallery and dealer was asked for an object with a high price along with one with a low price, the same object has been chosen, together with a vessel by Helena Schepens.
From 18 - 27 October 2013 the well known Kunst10daagse will be held in the 'artists' village of Bergen on the coast of North Holland.
Six objects made by silversmith Jan van Nouhuys will be exhibited in the goldsmith's shop De Pioen in the Kleine Dorpsstraat.
Emiel Aardewerk, antique dealer and jeweller in The Hague, brought along a group of people who take a year's course organized by the VHOK (the association of dealers in antique art). For this lecture by silversmith Jan van Nouhuys Aardewerk had with him a beautiful and representative collection of antique silver objects. These were put in the middle of the contemporary designs by Van Nouhuys in gallery STUDIO 925.
In an article about architect Gerard Rijnsdorp from Reeuwijk, the magazine Eigen Huis & Interieur devotes 14 pages to four of his designs for private houses in its April 2013 edition. Gallery Studio 925 which is part of the home of Jan and Anneke van Nouhuys is one of the projects chosen by the architect himself.
The synergy between Gerard and Jan was a great experience. Together they had to find all sorts of solutions to keep the project low budget.
Jan designed the interior of the gallery. The highback chairs around the table are also designed by him.
Ter gelegenheid van de aanstaande troonswisseling heeft Jan van Nouhuys een 'Koningsbord' ontworpen. Met het 'appeltje van oranje' als verwijzing naar het huis van Oranje als kroon op een zilveren bord.
Het werk van Van Nouhuys onderscheidt zich in het gegeven dat het om unieke stukken gaat. Dit ontwerp leent zich er voor dat hij het in herhaling kan vervaardigen.
For English and a video film read the full text.
Wednesday 19 December Emiel Aardewerk, antiquedealer and jeweller, opened the exhibition Een keur aan zilver in the Belasting & Douane Museum in Rotterdam. This completely renewed museum shows a selection of Dutch silver from the 16th to the 21st century with work by famous silversmiths, early 20th century period jewellery and contemporary art by Jan van Nouhuys, Arjen Lucas, Wouter van Baalen and Regina Goudriaan.
The exhibition, which recounts the history of Dutch hallmarking, runs from 20 December 2012 to 31 March 2013.
Sunday December 1st Alexander Pechtold MP gave the opening speech for the exhibition "Feestelijk Zilver" (Festive Silver) in the Stedelijk Museum in Zutphen. A large crowd assembled to hear him speak and subsequently visit the exhibition.
The exhibition brings together the work of twenty contemporary Dutch silversmiths, each of them presenting four major works.
Feestelijk Zilver will be on show until 7th April 2013.
At the past pAn STUDIO 925 sold the absolute top piece on the opening day. The object with the name "Furioso" was made by Jan van Nouhuys in 2008. It is a big cubic with flowing lines, which make a different pattern on each side. In a way, it is the most 'decorative' work in the oeuvre of Van Nouhuys. As in previous years, the Möbius objects in which silver is combined with wood attracted a great deal of attention.
Surprisingly, the object Möbius VI turned out to be a stunning piece of jewellery (picture).
This year the pAn website has a special section called 'PAN & I.K'. I.K. is short for 'Instant Kunstkennis', or in English 'Instant Knowledge of Art'. This digital source of information offers bitesize knowledge of art, antiques and design. It also offers news updates about this years exhibition.
Jan van Nouhuys wrote one of the items which you can read by following this link: www.pan.nl
For the first time this year the National Silverday, always on Whitmonday, was extended over the weekend. And for the first time the event was international. Ten silversmiths from Belgium and the UK put up an exhibition in the Turfkelder, a beautiful space with its gothic vault underneath the Town Hall.The Saturday and the Sunday built up, as far as numbers of visitors were concerned, towards the climax on Monday, when around 16.000 people visited Schoonhoven.
The reactions of the public to what was on show were very positive, and the silversmiths felt as if in a warm bath. No doubt the beautiful weather contributed to this as well! Hopefully, this first experiment will be repeated next year and grow in size and stature.
At the Artantique Fair Utrecht a special exhibition has been created around the theme "trends and rages through the ages".
The 17th century hype around the tulip (tulipmania) evoked the making of exquisite porcelain vases in Delft. One of these is exhibited, as well as the equivalents of our days in response in ceramics and silver. Naturally, the well known paintings with beautiful tulip bouquets are represented, and again a photographic work of the 21st century based on that tradition.
Jan van Nouhuys' vase 'Totem', a stackable tulipvase consisting of four parts, is regarded as the highlight of the present day objects on the theme.
How amazing it is to realise that a skyscraper is being built in Dubai at this very moment which shows great resemblance to an object / vase, made by silversmith Jan van Nouhuys in 2003!
The creativity of the design for the Infinity Tower has not gone unnoticed. The tower received several awards, among them Best International High Rise Architecture Award in the International Property Awards. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) is the architectural firm behind the tower.
Studio 925 had a remarkable PAN this year. First of all, the celebration of Jan van Nouhuys' jubilee of 35 years of silversmithing had obviously struck a cord with the PAN organisation, as they put on the floorplan leaflet cover one of Van Nouhuys' objects, namely the "Platte knoop" (Square knot). As they put it, as a tribute to his achievements during those years and with the hope to be able to enjoy his sparkling creations for years to come!
Then there was the unexpected sale of a number of his top objects, one of which is the "Zonnige wereld" (Sunny World).
At the pAn Fair Jan van Nouhuys will celebrate his 35 years of silversmithing.
It all started in a picturesque, romantic, but fairly dilapidated courtyard cottage in the old centre of The Hague, in 1976. It was a lot of hard work, learning through restoring antique silver, making new pieces but never selling them.
In the fall of 2009 Elizabeth Auriol Peers came to The Netherlands to get a training by silversmiths in Schoonhoven. This in cooperation with the Foundation Silver in Motion.
On the 29th of August (2010) the new Synagogue for the Liberaal Joodse Gemeente was opened in Amsterdam Zuid. It was designed by the architects of SeARCH. Besides it being a house for prayer and learning for the growing liberal Jewish community in Amsterdam, it is also meant to be a meeting place for different religious and ethnic groups.
The enormous window in the shape of a seven-armed candlestick makes the spacious interior into a light and bright place. Jan van Nouhuys was asked to make a scale model in silver.
Saturday 3 April the AD newspaper had an extensive feature article about the architecture of the gallery and home of Jan and Anneke van Nouhuys. The design by Gerard Rijnsdorp had struck the journalist when he looked at Gerard's website, and he decided to write an article about the gallery/home, built in 2004.
In The Netherlands eating asparagus is something of a ritual for some people. With the asparagus season approaching, one of those who love asparagus, commissioned Jan van Nouhuys to make a centrepiece in which asparagus cutlery is hidden. When opened, the object looks like a flower with four petals, which then reveals its treasure.
Each year Design Vlaanderen awards the Henry van de Velde trophies to designers in different disciplines. On 19 Janaury 2010 they did so for the 16th time in the Flemish Parliament. The award has been named after the famous Flemish painter, designer and architect Henry van de Velde.
While the public attention for contemporary silver is growing in the world, there is declining educational attention for the development of the required craft skills at universities and art colleges worldwide. Silver in Motion, a platform for contemporary silver, provides a sound answer to that with its 'Program of Excellence'.
In the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg, Germany, beautifully situated on the Marienberg overlooking the city, the exhibition 'Volle Kanne' (Full Jugs) will be running from May 9 to August 2, 2009.
In this city breathing history this is an interesting event. The jugs have all been made very recently, that is to say in 2009, especially for the exhibition. Several silversmiths from the Netherlands are taking part, amongst them Jan van Nouhuys. He made this 'Jug For Fresh Air' for the exhibition.
It was a very festive occasion indeed when Hiroshi Suzuki received the Schoonhoven Silver Award from the mayor of Schoonhoven, April 3rd. The whole event took place in the Bartholomeus Church in the centre of the town.
The opening of the solo-exhibition of Helena Schepens 28 March 2009 was a lively occasion. People attending were fascinated by her delicate-looking work, and by her explanation of it as part of the opening ceremony :
The recently by Jan van Nouhuys made object 'Furioso' has a form based on a cube. The top has been given a so-called twisted 'chessboard' relief.
The opening on 19 April 2008 of the exhibition 'Tafelhoeden - schaalobjecten in vele hoed-danigheden' (bowls, vessels, dishes) was a very festive occasion indeed. So many interested people came, that the openingspeech had to be given outside in the courtyard of the gallery. After that people took their turn to view the objects which have been made especially for this exhibition by thirty silversmiths from The Netherlands and Belgium.
16 February 2008 many of the 30 gold- and silversmiths taking part in the exhibition 'Tafelhoeden ? Schaalobjecten in vele hoed-danigheden' came to Gallery Studio 925 to bring the object they had made.
In its Special which De Telegraaf devoted to the Fair pAn Amsterdam Friday 16 november 2007, Studio 925 features prominently under the heading : A party with 23 silver jugs. Two photographs accompagny the article, which follows in Dutch :
At a dinnerparty for sponsors of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, a great number of jugs designed and made by gold- and silversmiths for the exhibition "Ken 't dat ik u kan? Kannen die u niet kan kennen, decorated the beautifully laid tables.
Saturday 21st April people thronged the gallery Studio 925 to attend the opening of the exhibition Ken 't dat ik u kan? It was a very festive occasion, the beautiful weather contributed to that as well, with most of the makers of the jugs present.
Sunday 18 February was a very special day for Gallery Studiop 925. The silver- and goldsmiths who had been designing and making their jugs for the ‘Ken ’t dat ik u kan?’ exhibition brought them to the Gallery !
Recordaantal bezoekers op pAn Amsterdam 2006
Amsterdam, 26 november 2006 – De jubilerende nationale kunst- en antiekbeurs pAn Amsterdam sluit vandaag af met zo'n 35.500 bezoekers, circa 12,5% meer dan vorig jaar en een absoluut record.
As of the 1st of noverber the new site is up and running. Check out the new features and slideshows.
Work of Jan van Nouhuys has been shown at the World-Expo in Aichi, Japan, 25 March - 25 September 2005.
The candlesticks Sculptured Light were purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1999.
They have been prominently exhibited since the opening of the new Silvergallery in the V&A in 2000.