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47 Notable alumni of Gerrit Rietveld Academy

Updated: May 31, 2026 EliteDegrees

Gerrit Rietveld Academy is ranked #5,562 in the world and #43 in Netherlands by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from Gerrit Rietveld Academy sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Gerrit Rietveld Academy won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Hendrik-Jan Grievink

1. Hendrik-Jan Grievink

1977-. (aged 49)
graphic designer
HJ Grievink is a Dutch graphic designer and editor based in Amsterdam. He works on a range of commissioned and self-initiated projects positioned at the intersection of graphic design and visual culture research. Grievink is best known for designing and co-editing the book Next Nature: Nature Changes Along With Us, and for developing the memory games, Fake for Real and...
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Maria Lalou

2. Maria Lalou

1977-. (aged 49)
performance artist
Maria Lalou is a Greek contemporary conceptual artist, experimental filmmaker, architectural researcher, critical thinker and scholar. She explores the topic of viewing, incorporating cinematic apparatus and surveillance as part of her tools, with central references to the politics of the viewer. Her works negotiate about the notion of 'viewing' as a civic negotiation, by the means of a performative act,...
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Frank Tjepkema

3. Frank Tjepkema

1970-. (aged 56)
installation artist industrial designer furniture designer jewelry designer
Frank Tjepkema is a Dutch designer based in Amsterdam. He works in interior design, architecture, product design, visual design and jewellery. He is most known for his collections, Bronze Age, Future Nostalgia, Clockwork Love, and his interior design projects. In 2014, at the Amsterdam Light Festival, he installed Light Bridge on a bridge along the Amstel river that received considerable...
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Simone Rossmann

4. Simone Rossmann

1978-. (aged 48)
Simone Rossmann is an Austrian designer specialised in product design and concept development. Simone grew up in the town of the Alps - in Innsbruck. The surrounding of beautiful mountains and historical buildings influenced her keen sense of art and design. She has been the senior designer of Swarovski for 8 years. in Wattens in charge of Home Decor. With...
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Janne Kyttanen

5. Janne Kyttanen

1974-. (aged 52)
squash player designer
Janne Kyttanen is a Finnish conceptual artist, designer, entrepreneur and investor who is best known for his work in design for 3D printing. He was the founder of Freedom of Creation, a pioneering agency that specialised in design for 3D printing. In 2011 Freedom of Creation was acquired by 3D Systems, an American-based manufacturer of 3D printers. He held the...
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Wietske van Leeuwen

6. Wietske van Leeuwen

1965-. (aged 61)
ceramicist
Wietske van Leeuwen is a Dutch ceramist, who lives and works in Monnickendam. Her works are constructed in a baroque style, with shells and fruit as recurring motifs.
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Johan van Loon

7. Johan van Loon

1934-2020 (aged 86)
ceramicist textile designer textile artist
Johan Gerard van Loon was a Dutch ceramist and textile artist.
Saar de Swart

8. Saar de Swart

1861-1951 (aged 90)
patron of the arts sculptor muse art collector collector
Elizabeth Sara Clasina de Swart, whose chosen name was 'Saar' de Swart, was a sculptor born to the Dutch painter Corstianus Hendrikus de Swart and his wife, Elisabeth Sara IJntema in Arnhem, Netherlands.
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Koert van Mensvoort

9. Koert van Mensvoort

1974-. (aged 52)
computer artist performance artist designer writer lecturer
Koert van Mensvoort is an artist, philosopher and scientist best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature. He is the founder and director of Next Nature Network, a non-profit organization that aims to go forward to nature.
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Barbara Nanning

10. Barbara Nanning

1957-. (aged 69)
glass designer glass artist sculptor designer jewelry designer
Barbara Nanning is a Dutch designer, sculptor, monumental artist, ceramist and glass artist.
Guido van der Werve

11. Guido van der Werve

1977-. (aged 49)
animator television producer composer video artist performance artist
Guido van der Werve is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist.
Jet Boeke

12. Jet Boeke

1948-. (aged 78)
writer graphic designer illustrator draftsperson
Jet Boeke is a Dutch children's author and illustrator. She is a contributor to the Dutch version of Sesame Street, and is famous worldwide for her book series Dikkie Dik.
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Hellen van Meene

13. Hellen van Meene

1972-. (aged 54)
photographer
Hellen van Meene is a Dutch photographer known especially for her portraits.
Floris Kaayk

14. Floris Kaayk

1982-. (aged 44)
film director artist animator new media artist multimedia artist
Floris Kaayk is a Dutch digital artist. He grew up in Tiel as the son of artist couple Coen and Guusje Kaayk. Kaayk graduated summa cum laude from the animation department of AKV St. Joost academy of Art and Design in Breda, and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His work focuses on...
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Constant Dullaart

15. Constant Dullaart

1979-. (aged 47)
cinematographer conceptual artist exhibition curator animator new media artist
Constant Dullaart is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator. His work is deeply connected to the Internet.
Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe

16. Guillaume Lo-A-Njoe

1937-. (aged 89)
painter sculptor muralist draftsperson
Guillaume Theodoor Lo-A-Njoe is a Dutch painter of Surinamese descent. He is married and has one son. He currently resides and works in Amsterdam where he celebrated his 60th anniversary as an artist in 2019.
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Abdul Vas

17. Abdul Vas

1981-. (aged 45)
painter draftsperson
Abdul Vas is a contemporary artist. He grew up living between Suriname, Guyana, and Belgium. After studies at EAVRA in Maracay and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam he lives and works in Amsterdam and Madrid. He has created handmade books and zines, photographs, collages, drawings, paintings and murals.
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Marit Törnqvist

18. Marit Törnqvist

1964-. (aged 62)
writer illustrator children's writer translator stage painter
Marit Törnqvist is a Swedish-Dutch author, artist and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrations in the books of Astrid Lindgren.
Herman Makkink

19. Herman Makkink

1937-2013 (aged 76)
illustrator sculptor draftsperson graphic artist photographer
Herman Makkink was a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator.
Jos Stam

20. Jos Stam

1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
Jos Stam is a researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on the simulation of natural physical phenomena for 3D-computer animation. He achieved technical breakthroughs with the simulation of fluids and gases, new rendering algorithms and subdivision surfaces, which are a mix between two previously incompatible worlds of Nurbs- and polygon-modeling in 3D.
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Edgar Vos

21. Edgar Vos

1931-2010 (aged 79)
fashion designer diarist
Edgar Vos was a Dutch fashion designer.
Maria Barnas

22. Maria Barnas

1973-. (aged 53)
installation artist columnist writer visual artist literary critic
Maria Barnas is a Dutch writer, poet and artist.
Gijs Bakker

23. Gijs Bakker

1942-. (aged 84)
ceramics designer jewelry designer industrial designer textile designer fashion designer
Gijs Bakker is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Gerard Unger

24. Gerard Unger

1942-2018 (aged 76)
type designer writer postage stamp designer university teacher typographer
Gerard Unger was a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963 to 1967, and subsequently worked at Total Design, Prad and Joh. Enschedé. In 1975, he established himself as an independent developer. A long-time guest lecturer at the University of Reading, he mentored many modern typeface designers. He lived and worked...
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Renzo Martens

25. Renzo Martens

1973-. (aged 53)
film producer film director visual artist cinematographer animator
Renzo Martens is a Dutch artist who currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Kinshasa. Martens became known for his controversial work, including Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008), a documentary that suggests that the Congo markets its poverty as a natural resource. In 2010 Renzo Martens initiated the art institute Human Activities that postulates a gentrification program on a palm...
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Hans Aarsman

26. Hans Aarsman

1951-. (aged 75)
author lecturer writer playwright blogger
Hans Aarsman is a Dutch author and former photographer. He is best known for his bi-weekly column “The Aarsman Collection” in de Volkskrant, in which he examines press photos like a detective. He also appears regularly on stage, where he engagingly reports on his investigative methods.
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Dana Lixenberg

27. Dana Lixenberg

1964-. (aged 62)
photographer film director
Dana Lixenberg is a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. She lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. Lixenberg pursues long-term projects on individuals and communities on the margins of society. Her books include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), Set Amsterdam (2011), De Burgemeester/The Mayor (2011), and Imperial Courts (2015).
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Trude Guermonprez

28. Trude Guermonprez

1910-1976 (aged 66)
textile artist textile designer university teacher weaver
Trude Guermonprez, was a German and American textile artist, designer and educator, known for her tapestry landscapes. Her Bauhaus-influenced disciplined abstraction for hand woven textiles greatly contributed to the American craft and fiber art movements of the 1950s–1970s, particularly during her tenure at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
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Ger van Elk

29. Ger van Elk

1941-2014 (aged 73)
art historian draftsperson installation artist collagist conceptual artist
Ger van Elk was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both conceptual art and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York City, and Amsterdam, except for a period of study in Groningen in the 1960s. In 1996 he won the...
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Wim Crouwel

30. Wim Crouwel

1928-2019 (aged 91)
costume designer university teacher draftsperson industrial designer type designer
Willem Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel was a Dutch graphic designer, type designer, and typographer.
Bob Noorda

31. Bob Noorda

1927-2010 (aged 83)
graphic designer architect
Bob Noorda was a Dutch-born Italian graphic designer who lived and worked primarily in Milan from 1954 onwards. His works included design projects for major corporations and large-scale retail chains, publishing houses as well as public works such as the Milan Metro and NYC subway sign and image systems. During his career as a designer, Noorda created more than 170...
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Antonín Kratochvíl

32. Antonín Kratochvíl

1947-. (aged 79)
photojournalist teacher actor photographer
Antonín Kratochvíl is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of VII Photo Agency.
Rebecca Gomperts

33. Rebecca Gomperts

1966-. (aged 60)
women's rights activist writer women physician
Rebecca Gomperts is a Dutch physician and activist for women's rights, in particular abortion rights. She is the founder of Women on Waves and Women on Web, which provide reproductive health services for women in countries where they are not available. In 2013 and 2014, Gomperts was included in the BBC's 100 Women. In 2018, she founded Aid Access, which...
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Ted van Lieshout

34. Ted van Lieshout

1955-. (aged 71)
illustrator draftsperson children's writer screenwriter graphic designer
Ted van Lieshout is a Dutch poet and writer of children's literature. He has won numerous awards for his work.
Charlotte Mutsaers

35. Charlotte Mutsaers

1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher illustrator draftsperson graphic artist postage stamp designer
Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist. She won the Constantijn Huygens Prize (2000) and the P. C. Hooft Award (2010) for her literary oeuvre.
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Saskia Noorman-den Uyl

36. Saskia Noorman-den Uyl

1946-. (aged 80)
politician
Saskia Elisabeth Agatha Noorman-den Uyl is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).
Peter Klashorst

37. Peter Klashorst

1957-2024 (aged 67)
sculptor painter photographer
Peter Klashorst was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Phil Bloom

38. Phil Bloom

1945-. (aged 81)
actor draftsperson interdisciplinary artist model photographer
Phil Bloom is a Dutch artist, graphic designer and performer. She was the first person to appear completely nude on Dutch television broadcaster VPRO, on 28 July 1967 during the show Hoepla, which caused scandal and controversy at the time. Afterwards, she worked in painting, photography and performance art. She was a member of the Fluxus network in 1967. A...
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Ben van Berkel

39. Ben van Berkel

1957-. (aged 69)
university teacher architect
Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect. He is the founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio. With his studio he designed, among others, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Moebius House in the Netherlands, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Arnhem Central Station, the Singapore University of Architecture and Design, Raffles City in Hangzhou and numerous other...
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Rob Scholte

40. Rob Scholte

1958-. (aged 68)
painter collagist artist installation artist photographer
Rob Scholte is a Dutch contemporary artist. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. His work consists of reproductions of images from the media and from art history. He lives and works in Den Helder.
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Alex van Warmerdam

41. Alex van Warmerdam

1952-. (aged 74)
scenographer author writer painter film actor
Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.
Jan des Bouvrie

42. Jan des Bouvrie

1942-2020 (aged 78)
art collector interior designer designer furniture designer
Jan des Bouvrie was a Dutch architect, interior and product designer, best known for his 1969 "kubusbank sofa", now considered a design classic. Des Bouvrie was active as a distinguished lecturer at various design academies. The design college Jan des Bouvrie Academy, in Deventer is named in his honor.
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Rineke Dijkstra

43. Rineke Dijkstra

1959-. (aged 67)
postage stamp designer video artist video installation artist artist photographer
Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award.
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Robbert Dijkgraaf

44. Robbert Dijkgraaf

1960-. (aged 66)
columnist theoretical physicist writer university teacher mathematician
Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, ForMemRS HonFRSE is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2022 until 2024. From July 2012 until his inauguration as a minister, he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in...
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Lita Cabellut

45. Lita Cabellut

1961-. (aged 65)
contemporary artist painter video artist collagist photographer
Lita Cabellut is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands. Cabellut works on large scale canvases using a contemporary variation of the fresco technique.
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Wim T. Schippers

46. Wim T. Schippers

1942-. (aged 84)
program maker presenter television presenter graphic designer television director
Willem Theodoor "Wim T." Schippers is a Dutch artist, comedian, television director, and voice actor. During the 1960s, he worked mostly as a visual artist, associated with the international Fluxus-movement. As a television writer, director, and actor he is responsible for some of the most notable and controversial shows on Dutch televisions from the 1960s to the 1990s, creating a...
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Hansje van Halem

47. Hansje van Halem

1978-. (aged 48)
postage stamp designer graphic designer graphic artist type designer
Hansje van Halem is a Dutch graphic designer and type designer. Her work is typified by geometric, repetitive, sometimes almost psychedelic patterns. She works at the intersection of text, illustration, pattern, colour, texture, distortions, interruptions, variations, symmetry, systematic approach and irregularities. Van Halem combines the more open rules of patterns with the tighter ruleset of typography and explores the boundaries...
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