Biography
| Born in Voorburg on January 27th 1937 as the daughter of Elly Richard, painter, and Bernard Blom, engineer. | |
| Attends the Montessori Lyceum in Rotterdam (1948-1954) | |
| Attends the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (1954-1967) | |
| Wins the first prize in a competition for a tile commemorating the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Holland. The tile is produced in a run of 20,000 copies. (1955) | |
| Attends the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.(1957-1959) | |
| Marries the medical student Eylard van Hall, now emeritus professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Leiden University Medical Cent. (1959) | |
| Her children Eric, Jurriaan and Eva are born. (1960, 1962, 1966) | |
| Shares the Jacob den Hartogh Material Award with the Belgian sculptor Jules Vermeire. (1969) Spends a year with the family in the United States; takes a course in new materials at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. (1969-1970) |
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| Moves to Noordwijk, where she has lived and worked since. (1972) | |
| Daughter Eva dies. (1974) | |
| Starts paying frequent working visits to Pietrasanta, Italy (Studio Sem). (1979-2012) | |
| Retrospective exhibition at the Center of Fine Arts De Beyerd in Breda. Publication of monography Maja van Hall: sculpture of the past twenty years(© 1983, De Beyerd, Breda and Gary Schwarz, Maarssen) | |
| Teacher, later head of Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Enschede | |
| Attends Anthony Caro workshop, Jan van Eyk Academy, Maastricht. (1985) | |
| Retrospective exhibition on the occasion of her 60th life year in the Artists Association Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Publication of monography Maja van Hall - Een Beeld (© 1997, van Lindonk Productions, Maarssen) | |
| Member Sculpture Network (2005-2012) | |
| Publication of monography Maja van Hall - In Beeld (© 2005, Hallart Foundation, Noordwijk) | |
| Member, later fellow Royal British Society of Sculptors (2007-2012) | |
| Retrospective exhibition My work is my biography: the sculpture of Maja van Hall on the occasion of her 75th life year in Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen, The Hague. (2012) | |
| Publication of monography Maja van Hall (2012, WBooks, Zwolle/Sculpture Institute. Scheveningen) |
Selected exhibitions
| 1968 | Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | |
| 1973 | Art 4'73, Basel (Switzerland) | |
| 1974 | Art 5'74, Basel (Switzerland) | |
| 1977 | International Art Fair, Cologne (Germany) | |
| 1978 | Galerie Jane Vital, Toulouse (France) |
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| 1982 | Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Art 13'82, Basel (Switzerland) Galerie Hilger, Vienna (Austria) | |
| 1983 | Galerie Schindler, Bern (Switzerland) Center of Fine Arts De Beyerd (retrospective), Breda (The Netherlands) Tradition and Experiment, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (The Netherlands) |
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| 1969 | Shares the Jacob den Hartogh Material Award with the Belgian sculptor Jules Vermeire. Spends a year with the family in the United States; takes a courose in new materials at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. |
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| 1984 | Municipal Museum De Lakenhal (retrospective), Leiden (The Netherlands) Art 15'84, Basel (Switzerland) | |
| 1985 | The 2nd International Contemporary Art Fair, London (United Kingdom) International Art Fair, Cologne Art 16'85, Basel (Switzerland) | |
| 1983 | Large retrospective exhibition at the Center of Fine Arts De Beyerd in Breda. | |
| 1986 | Sculptors Working Models. Travelling exhibition: Pietrasanta (Italy), Paris, Kopenhagen | |
| 1997 | Mostra di scultura in ommagio a Sem, Piazza Duomo e Chiesa di Santo Agostino, Pietrasanta (Italy) Artistes contemporains des Pays-Bas et des Flandres, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussel (Belgium) Women in sculpture, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen (The Netherlands) Artists Association Pulchri Studio (retrospective), The Hague (The Netherlands) | |
| 1997 | Large retrospective exhibition on the occasion of her 60th birthday in the Artists Association Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Presentation of the monography 'Maja van Hall - Een Beeld'. | |
| 1998 | From sculpture to sculpture, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (The Netherlands) | |
| 1999 | 'Dutch Forms', Sculptures by Dutch artists, Hilton, Brussels (Belgium) Modern Dutch Sculpture, Erasmus House, Jakarta (Indonesia) | |
| 2000 | The human being in sculpture, Municipal Museum Zwolle (The Netherlands) | |
| 2001 | Rencontre Sculptural du Nord, Le Havre (France) 'Connecting Worlds' Sculptures from the European Community, Kennedy Memorial Centre, Washington D.C. | |
| 2002 | 'Rencontre Sculptural du Sud, Les Quais de la sculpture', Bordeaux (France) | |
| 2003 | 'Role Models', The Hague Sculpture 2003, The Hague (The Netherlands) | |
| 2005 | Galerie Het Cleyne Huys, The Hague (The Netherlands) | |
| 2006 | Artists Association Pulchri Studio (Voorhoutgalerie), The Hague (The Netherlands) | |
| 2007 | Skulpturgarten Suerth, Koln, Germany Sculpture in the Garden 2007’, Leicester University’s Botanic Garden, Leicester, (United Kingdom) | |
| 2009 | Maja van Hall, Jurriaan van Hall, Juul van den Heuvel. Landgoed Klein Offem, Noordwijk (The Netherlands). | |
| Art in the Family: four van Hall generations. Art and Culture Foundation KCA Aalsmeer (The Netherlands) |
Selected commissions
| 1962 | Wallscupture, Transshipment Company, Rotterdam | |
| 1978 | Dream Tree, Gent Management Centre, European Foundation for Management Development, Gent (Belgium) | |
| 1980 | Dream Tree, University Hospital, Leiden | |
| 1983 | Laying, Municipality of Utrecht | |
| 1984 | Heads, Ministry of General Affairs, The Hague | |
| 1985 | Sculpture Silence Center, Hospital De Heel, Zaandam | |
| 1986 | Anna Bijns Award | |
| 1987 | Van Emde Boas van Ussel Award | |
| 1989 | Sculpture Building Labour Union Federation, Amsterdam | |
| 1992 | Garden sculpture Tax Department, Den Bosch | |
| 1993 | Sculpture Social Service Center Municipality of Aalsmeer | |
| 1994 | Mind Monitor, Fine Arts Foundation, Province of Gelderland | |
| 2008 | Shells, Van der Wiel Bouw BV, Noordwijk | |
| 2009 | Grave monument for Mr Willem van Manen. Zorgvlied cemetery, Amsterdam |
Work in possession of
| - | Dutch state collection, private collection H.M Queen Beatrix | |
| - | Municipal Museum The Hague | |
| - | Museum Beelden aan Zee The Hague | |
| - | Museum Commanderie van St Jan Nijmegen | |
| - | Museum of Modern Art Utrecht | |
| - | Art Library Utrecht collection | |
| - | Galerie Schindler Bern | |
| - | Brook Street Gallery London | |
| - | Museo Municipale di Pietrasanta | |
| - | Private collections in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, | |
| - | United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland and United States. |
Selected bibliography
| - | Ariane Amsberg. Maja, sculptress. Chrysallis 2, 1978 | |
| - | José Boyens. Reading the dream book and waking up: the sculptures of Maja van Hall. Ons Erfdeel, 1980 | |
| - | Ria Reul Verlaan. Between scupture and performer. Wending, October 1982 | |
| - | José Boyens. Tradition and Experiment (monography), Venlo, 1982 | |
| - | Willemijn Stokvis. Maja van Hall, sculptures (monography). Gary Schwartz Publishing, Maarssen, 1983 | |
| - | Frans Duister. Maja van Hall, the blossoming of a sculptress. Kunstbeeld, November 1983 | |
| - | Annelette Hamming. Maja van Hall and the sculptures she does not need to make. Tableau, December 1990 | |
| - | José Boyens. Maja van Hall, catching the sky in an iron hat. In: Art at state buildings, volume 8 (1993-1994). Published by the Ministry of Public Housing and Environmental Planning, The Hague 1994 | |
| - | Maja van Hall - Een Beeld (monography). Van Lindonk Special Projects, Breukelen, 1997 | |
| - | Ineke Geraerdts. Sculptress Maja van Hall and the record of her life. Scarabee nr. 32, February 1998 | |
| - | Petra Vethman. The liberation of Maja van Hall. Elegance, June 1999 | |
| Maja van Hall - In Beeld (monography). Hallart Foundation, Noordwijk, 2005 | ||
| - | Peter ter Veer. Sculptures on the Maliebaan. Archetypes and individual beauty: Maja van Hall. Nobelmagazine, 3, nr 3/4, 6-8, Optima Publishing, Utrecht, 2006 |