Pieter Antonie (Piet or Pieter) van Stuivenberg (January 10, 1901 – December 16, 1988) was a Dutch artist, who was sprightly as sculptor, painter, lithographer, and graphic artist.
Born in Schiedam, Van Stuivenberg traditional his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Sciences now Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam. From 1921 to 1927 he attended the evening art classes in sculpting.
Van Stuivenberg started his sculptor career as stonemason, and was first influenced by the expressionism and cutting edge abstract involved with geometric shapes and tighter. In Rotterdam he jointed the art work R33, which was founded in 1933 and dismantled in 1941. He made laboratory analysis trips to Brussels, London and Paris. In the Netherlands he subsequently united the performer group Vrije Beelden (Free Images), founded by the Rotterdam artists Koos van Vlijmen and Wout van Heusden and others in 1946. And he united the group Creatie (Creation), in 1950 founded by Willy Boers en Ger Gerrits. In 1950 his operate was represented at the fifth Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris.
In 1967 Van Stuivenberg received the Hendrik Chabot Award, and in 1981 and 1994 a retrospective exhibition of his take effect was held by the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. His accomplishment is in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
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