Rokus van Blokland
Corry van Blokland Mobach

Royal Academy of Art
Corry Mobach (1929, Amsterdam) enrolled in 1946 in a drawing course at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After that she attended the advertising design and photography course. Teachers were Milo, Munnik, Hos, Gerard de Vries, Gerard Kiljan and Paul Schuitema. Corry graduated in 1952 with work for the Sio toy factory.

Corry says about the first years after the war: "There was nothing, one can not imagine now the austerity of that time. The total absence of colour, paints, clothes, shoes or lettering on shops. Canvas and paint were still scarce. It was very sober and shabby, but we did not experience it as such because we were free, and the world was open to us. We could now do everything. We only had to wait until there was paper ...".

In the early 50's Corry and Rokus made their first designs together.

1952 Maquette Sio Toys for exams

1948, Curtain fabrics for children's room

Competition organized by the Institute of Industrial Design in Amsterdam.
The fabrics were printed with copper cylinders, copper engraving, inks, and by printing the fabrics passing under rollers.
Width and rapport; the repetition of the pattern. The images had to be distributed in such a way that there was no concentration of shapes when repeated in length and width.
Corry made 16 designs for boys and girls, ranging in age from toddlers to about 10-12 years old.
Corry won the prize. The Sikorsky S-55 design was executed.

Design 'Wentelwiek' (Rotor blade)
Design 'Helicopter'
Design 'puppet theater'
1948 Design 'Punch town'
Design 'Sahara'

1948 Colour study Kiljan

1948 Photograms
De Vries taught technics of photography. Kiljan offered the opportunity to experiment and to apply photos in designs. Photograms, experimental photos


Giraffe illustrations
Kiljan's assignment in which human characteristics are attributed to animals.

1948 Book covers
Design Book covers, monotypes

1952 Cover Zuiderzeewerken

1949 Contrasts with Multiple Elements, A4
Contrasts; Form contrasts of two composite quantities, Direction contrast, Lines and rectangles or circles, Sharp shapes and round shapes.

1949 Sounds in pictures
The subjects were presentations of texts, poems, words but also sounds. Immediately after it was depicted.

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At the Edge of a fast River

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The Heavenly Court . . .

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Pickled onions in wine vinegar I

1949 Model drawing, directly in colour. Gouache