Dora Dolz

Dolz grew up in Barcelona, where her father had a booth at the flea market. In 1965 she moved to the Netherlands when her husband wanted to pursue a PhD in economics at the Tinbergen Institute. Between 1967 and 1971 she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art, where she was a lecturer herself from the 1980s. As an artist Dolz mainly produced paintings, ceramics, glassware, rugs, which were often pictured in flamboyant colors form. Recurring themes (leitmotifs) in these works were birth, life, suffering and death. Rotterdam North, Capelle aan den IJssel, Schiedam, Tiel and Groningen. In 1988 Dotz received the Victorine Heftingprijs, and in January 2008 the municipality of Rotterdam awarded her the Wolfert van Borselen medal. She was awarded the Judith Leysterprize three times, the third time in 1992. Her daughter is the filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz, who in 2005 made a movie portrait about her called Portrait of Dora Dolz. == Exhibitions, a selection ==

• 1973. Gallery 't Venster, Rotterdam. • 1975. Salon der Maassteden, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. • 1975. Dora Dolz and Guus de Ruyter, De Doelen Rotterdam. • 1977. Gallery da Costa, Amsterdam • 1981. Gallery Alto, Rotterdam. • 1986. ''Salon D T' EEN,'' Gallery De lachende Koe, Rotterdam. • 1987. Leda en de Zwaan, Gallery De lachende Koe Rotterdam • 1992. Keramisch werk en schilderijen van Dora Dolz, Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch. • 2005. Galerij Erasmus, Complex Hoboken, Rotterdam. • 2007-08. Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. == Gallery ==

Sculptures File:Capelle kunstwerk houten appel.jpg|Wooden apple (1978), Reigerlaan, Capelle aan den IJssel (along with Kees Franse) File:Pagode Catalana.JPG|Pagode Catalana (1978), Haarlem. File:Vloerplastiek Dora Dolz Poortweg UMCG.jpg|Floor mosaic, Groningen File:Wandmozaïek Dora Dolz Poortweg UMCG.jpg|Wall mosaic, Groningen File:Klokkenstoel Dora Dolz.JPG|Clock-chair (1990), Tiel File:Wassenaar kunstwerk vanitas.jpg|Vanitas, Wassenaar. Fauteuils and chaise Longues File:Rotterdam kunstwerk feuteuil.jpg|Fauteuil, Beukelsdijk, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk Fauteuili.jpg|Fauteuili, Hildegardisstraat, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk dora dolz gravendijkwal.jpg|Fauteuil, 's-Gravendijkwal/Rochussenstraat, Rotterdam File:Rotterdam kunstwerk Chaise Longue.jpg|Chaise Longue in the park at the Euromast in Rotterdam File:Pijnacker kunstwerk Dora Dolz.jpg|Chaise Longue in Pijnacker == References ==