{{Infobox artist | name = Bert Nienhuis | image = Photo of Bert Nienhuis.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1873|11|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Groningen, The Netherlands | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|5|26|1873|11|14|df=y}} | death_place = Amsterdam, the Netherlands | education = Minerva Academy, Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam | field = Ceramics, Jewelry | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = }}
[[File:Detail van Eeghenstraat 66.JPG|thumb|Tile tableau at a house in Amsterdam-South.]] '''Lambertus (Bert) Nienhuis''' (14 November 1873 in Groningen – 1960 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch ceramist, designer<ref>Heij, J.J. (2004) ''Nederlandse beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid [1885-1935]''. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers / Assen: Drents Museum.</ref> and jewelry designer.<ref>Baarsen, R.J. en Berge, G. van (1990) ''Juwelen 1820-1920''. Den Haag: Gary Schwarz/SDU. {{ISBN|9061791138}}</ref><ref>[https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/89334 Biographical data] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.</ref>
== Life and work == Nienhuis was born in Groningen as the son of the broker Lambertus Nienhuis (1834–1890) and Alberdina Good House (1835–1875). He was educated at the [[Minerva Academy]] in his hometown and then at the State School of Applied Arts in Amsterdam (Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid Amsterdam). In 1895 he worked for the stoneware factories De Distel in Amsterdam. A year later he founded Lotus Tile Bakery in [[Watergraafsmeer]]. His company was taken over in 1901 by De Distel, and Nienhuis became in charge of the decorative department. His invention of a matte glaze was quickly adopted by other factories.
From 1905 Nienhuis lecturer at the School of Applied Arts in Haarlem. He began that year with jewelry design for the jewelry firm Hoeker & Son. For one of his designs he was awarded a silver medal at the [[Brussels International 1910|1910 World Fair in Brussels]]. In his early jewelry design, until 1912, Nienhuis used simple abstracted natural ornaments in both the decoration and in the shape. He especially worked with gold, precious stones and enamel work. His ornaments are considered examples of the Dutch [[Art Nouveau]].
In 1912 Nienhuis moved from Haarlem to the German city of [[Hagen]], where he was a teacher at a newly established [[Kunstgewerbeschule]]. He got his own studio and plenty of space to experiment with new materials and techniques. He produced ceramic sculptures. In 1916 he returned to the Netherlands, partly because of the [[First World War]]. In 1917 he was appointed teacher at [[Quellinusschool]], which he would remain until his retirement in 1934. In this time as an independent potter, he made unica with characteristic simple forms.
In 1953 Nienhuis [[Dirk Hubers]], [[Harm Kamerlingh Onnes]], [[Piet Wiegman]] and [[Frans Wildenhain]] took part in the exhibition "five contemporary potters" in [[Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen]], which was one of the first museum presentations of modern artisan ceramics in the Netherlands.<ref name="GiV">Mienke Simon Thomas (2008). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=59V4nyCd7O8C&pg=188 Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland],'' p. 188</ref>
The portrait photographer Bert Nienhuis (born 1944) from Amsterdam is a grandchild of Bert Nienhuis.<ref>Mischa Cohen. "[http://www.vn.nl/Standaard-Media-Pagina/Een-beeld-van-Bert-Nienhuis.htm Een beeld van Bert Nienhuis]," in ''[[Vrij Nederland]],'' 3 december 2008.</ref>
== Gallery == <gallery widths="200" heights="200"> File:Vaas met gestileerd decor van vlinder, 1903-10.jpg|Vase with stylized decor of a butterfly, 1903-10. File:Tegel met gestileerd visdecor, 1905-15.jpg|Tile with stylized fish decor, 1905-15. File:Sieraad, hanger, in de vorm van een blad aan zwart fluwelen koort, 1920-30.jpg|Necklace in the shape of a leaf with a black velvet cord, 1920-30. File:Vaas met deksel met reliëfdecor van opschrift door Bert Nienhuis, 1931.jpg|Vase with cover and relief decoration, 1931. </gallery>
== Work in public collections (selection) == * [[Rijksmuseum]] Amsterdam * [[Princessehof Ceramics Museum]]
== See also == * [[List of Dutch ceramists]]
== References == {{reflist|2}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Bert Nienhuis}} * {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.capriolus.nl/nl/content/nienhuis-lambertus-bert-0 Nienhuis, Lambertus (Bert)], at capriolus.nl.
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