Karel Sluijterman

Karel Sluijterman studied at Delft University of Technology. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is product design. Places of work recorded in the authority are Zaltbommel and The Hague. Employment is recorded with Delft University of Technology. Positions recorded include Rector of Delft University of Technology. Work by Karel Sluijterman is recorded in the collections of Frans Hals Museum, City Castle Zaltbommel, Collection Sports Heritage NOC*NSF, National Museum Paleis het Loo and Royal Collections of the Netherlands.

From 1880 to 1884 Sluijterman studied at the Polytechnic School in Delft (the future Delft University of Technology) under the designer Adolf le Comte and at the Academy of Fine and Applied Courses in Rotterdam. From 1888 to 1891, Sluijterman worked in Paris at the Franco-Dutch architect-decorator Eduard Johan Niermans (1859-1928), where he got acquainted with the French floral Art Nouveau. This new style would greatly influence his work, though not all of his designs can be rank under the art nouveau. He also worked in the popular nineteenth-century revival styles. Back in the Netherlands Sluyterman was first aesthetic consultant and designer in 't Interior, a company for interior design founded by the innovative architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage. In 1895 Sluyterman became a Professor at the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he taught decorative art and theory of ornaments. In 1901 Sluyterman became teacher ornament drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem. In these capacities he actively worked to spread the applied arts. In 1900 he creates with the architect Johan Mutters the Dutch pavilion in the Art Nouveau style for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris. Back home the Amsterdam jeweler and goldsmith William Hoeker, founder of the Amsterdam interior design firm The Interior, hired Sluijterman as aesthetic consultant and designer. One of his assistants was Gerrit Versteeg.

• Illustration — Book cover Fidessa by Louis Couperus • Illustration — Book cover Reis-impressies by Louis Couperus • Illustration — Ceiling paintings from design by Sluyterman