Johannes Christiaan Lanooy

Place: Sint-Annaland

Born: 1881

Death: 1948

Biography:

Chris Lanooy was a Dutch potter and designer, who worked as ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art. He was born in Sint-Annaland in 1881 as son of Cornelis Lanooij and Janna van 't Hof. Lanooy studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. He worked for nearly all successful Dutch pottery bakeries around 1900. His unstoppable urge to experiment however, he could only really set free in his own studio. In 1912-1913 paintings by Italian Futurists were popular and Lanooy made an abstract-futurist composition in 1912. He died in Epe in 1948.