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Pieter Stoop (Breda, 1946-01-18)
Pieter Stoop is a Dutch painter of large abstract paintings.

Pieter Stoop acquired his artistic education at the Academy of Catholic Education, Tilburg (1962-1966) and at the Jan van Eyck Academy of Maastricht (1966 - 1972). At the end of his studies he obtained the Prize for the Visual Arts of the city of Maastricht (1972), and later on he received financial support to do a study trip to Morocco (prins Bernhard Fonds, 1974), and to New York en Mexico (travel grant CRM, 1979). Specialised in painting and sculpture and influenced by Soutine, de Kooning and Bram van de Velde, the artist revolutionized painting with the “Nieuw Schilderijen”. This school conceived art according exclusively to its materiality. Stoop focused on the painting materials and applied them thickly layer after layer to achieve a thick quality on the canvas.

“The essence is not that Pieter Stoop takes the landscape as his starting point; what matters is how the movement of paint and colour transforms the surface into something else: the painter’s art. Pieter Stoop makes beautifully modulated paintings.” R. H. Fuchs

Great canvases constitute his working sphere. These are dealt through a long process, which leads the artist to alternate oil painting with low-format drawings and acrylic paintings to make a quick sketch. All this has been regularly on display at the following venues: Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam (1974, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2001), De Krabbedans, Eindhoven, (1975, 1977) Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (1976, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986), Lens Fine Arts, Antwerpen (1985), and his work is nowadays part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven among many others. Pieter Stoop does currently live in Eindhoven.