Jan Goossen

Who is Jan Goossen?

Jan Goossen was a Dutch sculptor.

He followed his studies at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and achieved an architecture bachelor’s degree at the Heald College of Engineering of San Francisco. In addition he received several stipendia to travel abroad. During his training period, he specialised as sculptor, designer and draftsman.

Goossen’s work can de defined as non-figurative, geometric and abstract, with a focus on people and their relationship with the industrial world. As a result, the pieces display always intricate plays of horizontal and vertical lines, which create spatial tissues where the light penetrates. All these angularities are emphasized by the hard colours like bright red that Goossen uses.

The sculptures from Goossen, Jan can be seen in the Netherlands and in the United States. His first assignment was a relief at the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, and next in the same city a sculptural wall in the Golden Gate Center. Back in the Netherlands, he worked for the aged care home of Blaricum and for the Shell-laboratorium of Rijswijk.