Cornelius Rogge
Cornelius Hendrik Rogge (21 December 1932 – 17 January 2023) was a Dutch sculptor, installation artist and painter.
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Cornelius Rogge

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- Name
- Cornelius Rogge
- Birth Name
- Cornelius Hendrik Rogge
- Born
- 21 December 1932
- Birthplace
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Died
- 17 January 2023
- Place of death
- Eerbeek, Netherlands
- Occupation
- Sculptor, installation artists and painter
- Awards
- Cassandra Award (1971) David Röell Prize (1986)
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Fields
- abstract art
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Cornelius Hendrik Rogge (21 December 1932 – 17 January 2023) was a Dutch sculptor, installation artist and painter.
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Subjects and genres recorded for the work are abstract art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Cornelius Rogge is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, National Museum of World Cultures, Kröller-Müller Museum, Centraal Museum and Rijksmuseum Twenthe.

Expositie 'De Meanderende Shortcut' van Tycho, Adriaan Rees en Cornelius Rogge (De Garnalenkerk, Amsterdam 2026. Foto door Boris Suyderhoud)
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Cornelius Rogge • Birth Name — Cornelius Hendrik Rogge • Born — 21 December 1932 • Birthplace — Amsterdam, Netherlands • Died — 17 January 2023 • Place of death — Eerbeek, Netherlands • Occupation — Sculptor, installation artists and painter • Awards — Cassandra Award (1971) David Röell Prize (1986)
Biography
Biography
From 1950 to 1952, Rogge attended the Institute for Applied Arts Education (later the Gerrit Rietveld Academie) in Amsterdam. From 1955 to 1957 he studied at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1971 he received the American “Cassandra Award” and in 1986 the “David Röell Prize” from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Rogge taught at the AKV St. Joost in 's-Hertogenbosch and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Rogge was a representative of modern art from the post-World War II period. His work is present in multiple Dutch art museums including the Kröller-Müller Museum. Sculpture of Rogge in the public area includes Windzuil of in Amsterdam Nieuw-West and Piramide (Cornelius Rogge) in Amsterdam-Zuid. In 2005, on the occasion of his 45-years of being an artist, he was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Rogge died in Eerbeek on 17 January 2023, at the age of 90.
Expositions
Expositions
• 1955: Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem • 1965: Twaalf beeldhouwers uit Nederland, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels • 1970: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam • 1976: Tentenproject, Beeldenpark van het Kröller-Müller Museum (KMM), Otterlo • 1984: Institut Néerlandais, Paris • 1996: Delphi, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans • 1999: 40 jaar beelden, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede • 2005: Krijgsgewoel, Legermuseum, Delft • 2008: Zieleschepen, Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Afdruk van het heelal (1965), Beeldenpark KMM, Otterlo • Illustration — Säule (1988), Kunstwegen, Frenswegen • Illustration — Rearrangement of Star of the Sea altar (ca. 1990), Maastricht • Illustration — Cicero (2000), Beeldenpark KMM, Otterlo • Illustration — Windzuil (1966), Gerbrandypark, Amsterdam • Illustration — Piramide (1994), Amsterdam-Zuid • Illustration — Tiel
Life and career
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1932
Cornelius Rogge born at Amsterdam.
1965
Windzuil is dated 1965.
1994
Piramide is dated 1994.
2023
Cornelius Rogge died at Eerbeek.
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Amsterdam.
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Eerbeek.
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