Beeldhouwersportretten

Eighty-three photographs portray Dutch and international sculptors in their studios during the 1950s, a productive period for modern sculpture. Louise van der Veen shows the artists within their working environments: shaping or considering their work, resting between tasks, and occasionally responding to interruptions around them. The subjects range from Mari Andriessen, Wessel Couzijn, Hildo Krop and Charlotte van Pallandt to Giacomo Manzù, Henry Moore, Shinkichi Tajiri and Ossip Zadkine. Drawn from Van der Veen’s wider photographic archive, the images combine portraiture with a record of studio practice and artistic networks. The volume includes an introduction by J.N. van Wessem, with compilation and documentation by Dedalo Carasso. One portrait of Fred Carasso with a sculpture, dated around 1956, is held by the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History.