Johan Sterenberg - Figure - sculptuur Dansend meisje - Bronze

Johan Sterenberg (1920, Sint-Annen - 2002, Marum), also known as Johan van Sterenburg, was a Dutch sculptor and draftsman. He studied with Willem Valk at the Minerva Academy in Groningen. He apprenticed under Jan Bronner, Piet Esser and M.P. Semeijn at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and was a pupil of Oscar Jespers in Brussels. In 1959 he married the painter Rose Marie Gompertz. Sterenberg's subjects are nudes and figures. He experimented with different casting methods, including lead casting. He belongs to the Group of Figurative Abstraction. He was a member of Amsterdam's art academy Arti et Amicitiae and the NKVB, the Dutch Circle of Sculptors.