Visual artist Henk Tieman (The Hague, 1921 - Rotterdam, 2001) was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He was a student of the artist Oswald Wenckebach (sculpture) and Frits Eschauzier (decorative arts) at the TH Delft, later the Delft University of Technology. Tieman was employed from 1938 to 1982 as a monumental artist in the Construction pottery department of De Porceleyne Fles. First at the age of 17 as a pottery painter and designer of cloisonné tiles, but later as chief designer and head of the Department of Monumental Building Plastics. Tieman made drawings, tiles, ceramics, sculptures, glass art, sculptures and wall reliefs on commission and he worked both abstractly and figuratively. He was a member of Arti et Industriae in The Hague and the association of visual artists De Kring in Delft. His work can be found in various places in the Netherlands.
