Bert van Loo

Bert van Loo
Bert van Loo – 1998
Born	Hubertus Josephus Antoinette van Loo (1946-03-11)11 March 1946 Gulpen, Netherlands
Died	19 December 2016
Nationality	Dutch
Education	Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Known for	Sculpture and glass art
Notable work	Senza Parole (1998) Amsterdam – Osdorp Kroonluchter (2009) Provinciehuis Noord Holland – Haarlem
Website	http://www.bertvanloo.nl/

Bert van Loo (1946 in Gulpen^[1] – 2016) was a Dutch sculptor, who mainly worked with glass. He was mainly active in the Netherlands and China.

Bert van Loo acquired his sculptors education from 1969 to 1973 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Van Loo worked mainly with the material glass, mostly in combination with the materials bronze, lead, stone and wood. Van Loo was a teacher and guest teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Royal College of Art, Londen, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, US, and many other art academies in Europe, US, Japan, Australia and China. From 1975 until 2014, Bert van Loo was also advisor and curator for multiple organisations like the Council for Culture in The Hague, the Mondriaan Fund in Amsterdam, the Government of Amsterdam, Amstelveen and also for the Levant Art Gallery^[2] in Shanghai, China.

He realized works in the public space in the Netherlands and also in China. Bert van Loo had solo exhibitions as well with fellow artists in the Netherlands and most European countries, as well as America, Australia, Japan and China.^[3]

He won different awards and in 2006 he received a retrospective: in Museum Fundación Centro Del Vidrio, La Granja^[4] – Segovia, Spain. His work is in the collection of different museum's, private collections and corporate collections.

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  Glass art from Bert van Loo for the Government of Leidschendam, Rotonde Nieuwstraat, Leidschendam, the Netherlands.^[5]
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  'Grain of Sand' ('Zandkorrel') publicly known as 'The Egg' - Government of Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands^[6]
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  Artwork 'FIVE CLOUDS' (Vijf Wolken) 1993 from Bert van Loo for the government of Amsterdam, Mauritskade, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.^[7]
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  'Senza Parole' is a glass art statue from Bert van Loo for the Government of Amsterdam - Osdorp, the Netherlands.^[8]
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  Glass art from Bert van Loo for the Grand Palace Hotel in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 2011 - International Horticultural Exposition 2011, Xi'an, China.^[9]
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  'LEDA AND THE SWAN' 1999 Bert van Loo for the Government of Haarlemmermeer in Zwanenwater (Swanwater), Nieuw Vennep, the Netherlands.^[10]
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  CHANDELIER Bert van Loo in the Province House of North Holland - Haarlem, the Netherlands, 2009.^[11]
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  'CONTINUOUS' 2012 Bert van Loo for the exposition in honor of the bilateral relations between the Netherlands and China. Rolling Snowball/3-Guangzhou 10 Nov. - 3 Dec.2012. Now part of the collection of: Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai – China.^[12]

• Website Bert Van Loo
• Website of The Dutch Society of Sculptors (NKVB) with Bert van Loo's work Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
• Website of the Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja (Fundación Centro Del Vidrio) – the museum of Vidrio, Spain, with a retrospective of Bert van Loo
• Short film from Diana Taylor of Bert van Loo making a model on YouTube