Name Dora Dolz | Children Sonia Herman Dolz | |
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De Plantage, met Hans Verhagen, Dora Dolz en Peter te Bos (1995)
Dora Dolz (Barcelona, 1941 - Rotterdam, 1 March 2008) was a Spanish-Dutch artist, best known for her ceramic outdoors in the form of chairs and sofas.
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Life and work
Dolz grew up in Barcelona, where her father had a booth at the flea market. In 1965 she moved to the Netherlands when her husband wanted to pursue a PhD in economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Between 1967 and 1971 she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art, where she lecturer herself since the 1980s.
As an artist Dotz mainly produced paintings, ceramics, glassware, rugs, which were often pictured in flamboyant colors form. Recurring themes (leitmotifs) hereby were birth, life, suffering and death. Her work is taken into the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and Museum de Fundatie (Heino). There are sculptures of her in the center of Rotterdam, Rotterdam North, Capelle aan den IJssel, Schiedam and Tiel.
In 1988 Dotz received the Victorine Heftingprijs, and in January 2008 the municipality of Rotterdam awarded her the Wolfert van Borselen penning.
Her daughter is the filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz.