John Grosman (Delft, 1916 - Zwolle, 1970) attended the art academies in Amsterdam (1936-1939) and Arnhem (1939-1955). In Arnhem he founded the first professional 'cire perdue' bronze foundry in the Netherlands with his brother Dirk. He perfected the cire perdue technique, which he had learned from his teacher Jacob van de Hof. It is a method in which the wax is lost in the mold, so that casting can be done in one piece without dividing seams. The company moved to Velp in the late 1953s. Ossip Zadkine, Piet Esser, Wessel Couzijn, Lotti van der Gaag and Charlotte van Pallandt, among others, had sculptures cast there. After the war, Grosman taught 'space art' in secondary architectural education for ten years. As a draftsman and especially as a sculptor he worked in themes such as animals, women, figure representations, in increasing abstraction. He was active in the arts field through his membership of various associations. In XNUMX he received the culture prize from the city of Arnhem. He was a successful artist who fell into oblivion after his early death in a car accident.
