Piet Warffemius - Piet Warffemius, Zeefdruk, titel Het Masker uit 1989 - Sold

Petrus Marcelus Maria (Piet) Warffemius is a Dutch visual artist. Warffemius was born in 1956 in The Hague. He studied there at the Royal Academy of Art, where he graduated in 1979. He was a student of Aart Roos and Auke de Vries, among others. After his education he worked in several fields of the visual arts. He is a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist. His work is in the collections of Rabobank, ING Bank, Fortis Bank, Westland Utrecht Hypotheekbank, Nationale Nederlanden, Albert Heijn, the Dutch Railways, KPN and various other companies, among others. Several ministries and the Kruithuis museum in 's-Hertogenbosch also own work by him. In the sculpture garden of the Caldic Collection in Wassenaar there is a bronze statue of his hand. Commissioned by the NS, he made a series of panels that were used for the interior of the carriages. Warffemius won the Jacob Hartog Prize in 1997 and the Godon Prize in 1980. Warffemius is part of the Potsdamer Gruppe, which includes Sjoerd Buisman and Armando. In 2007 he was a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He made the sculpture Trees for the Park Sytwende in Voorburg and the sculpture Spring for Doorn, both sculptures were made of corten steel. Commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he made a Corten steel sculpture, which was placed at the Dutch embassy in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.