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Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

24 June 1888
Utrecht, Netherlands

25 June 1964(1964-06-25) (aged 76)

Utrecht, Netherlands

Furniture designer and architect

Early life[edit]

Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school[1] before working as a draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911.[2]

Recognition[edit]

Rietveld had his first retrospective exhibition devoted to his architectural work at the Central Museum, Utrecht, in 1958. When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.[9] "Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first comprehensive presentation of the Dutch architect's original works ever held in the U.S. The highlight of a celebratory "Rietveld Year" in Utrecht, the exhibition "Rietveld's Universe" opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.[10]


Two software tools, both for code review, have been named after Gerrit Rietveld: Gerrit and Rietveld.

on delpher.nl

Rietveld Schröder Archive

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Buildings of Gerrit Rietveld

Rietveld's furniture designs that are still in production

Rietveld Originals