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Personal data Allan Henry Buitekant 

• He was born on September 24, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA.Sources 3, 5, 6, 7
• Resident:
• in the year 1935: New York, Bronx, New York.Source 3
• on April 1, 1940: New York, Bronx, New York, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
• Asheville, North Carolina, USA.Source 8
• in the year 1971: Stamford, Connecticut, USA.Source 1
• in the year 1990: Pound Ridge, NY.Source 6
• He died on July 14, 2012 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, he was 78 years old.Sources 5, 8
• A child of Morris Buitekant and Frieda Rosen

Household of Allan Henry Buitekant

He is married to Jane Howard.

They got married in the year 1958 at New York City, New York, USA, he was 24 years old.Source 2

Notes about Allan Henry Buitekant

Allan Buitekant passed away in Asheville, NC on July 14, aged 78. Allan retired to North Carolina after an illustrious career as an advertising art director in New York City. He was one of a small group of art directors and writers at the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency who revolutionized advertising in the 1960’s and 70’s. Their work was characterized by elegance, wit, taste, and a painstaking attention to detail. These brilliant and irreverent upstarts eventually drove the older generation of hard-drinking sloganeering "Mad Men" out of the business.

In his home/studio in Union Mills, Allan continued his lifelong pursuit of his true vocation, ceramics. He was greatly influenced by the Japanese Mashiko tradition, which emphasizes simple forms and earth tones. (To see some of his remarkable work, go to www.buitekantpottery.com.)

Allan was also a student and disciple of the great Japanese bonsai master, Yuji Yoshimura, and always chose to live among trees. Donations in his memory can be made to Memory Trees www.ArborDay.org.

After the death of Jane, his wife of over 40 years, Allan entered a dark period, from which he was rescued by Joyce Cunningham, his loving companion and life partner. He is survived by Joyce and numerous friends in advertising and the arts. His renowned collection of bonsai trees, donated to The Bronx Botanical Gardens, also lives on after him.

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ARTIST STATEMENT: I began pottery as a whim back
in 1954. It was fun, and I did it to please myself while I
built a career as an art director in advertising. Life is
always surprising. I was working in the most creative
agency in the world -- called Doyle, Dane, Bernbach. As
I grew in this phenomenally creative environment, I
learned how to approach an advertising problem from a
fresh direction. This learned skill I adapted to my
ceramics, and I began a process of discovery in two
separate worlds.

Throughout my career, which led to executive creative
positions, I continued with pottery. Evenings and
weekends were either spent in the studio or at a
school. These circumstances exposed me to Byron
Temple at the 92nd Street YMCA, Jolyn Hofstead at the
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Parsons School of
Design and the famous Greenwich House with Jim
Crumrine.

From the beginning I explored form and how I could
utilize it in minimal fashion to create useful pieces.
Every so often sculpture would creep in. In advertising I
won too many awards to count including a Bronze Lion
from the Cannes Film Festival. My pottery is in private
collections and sold from coast to coast in galleries
and stores that are devoted to design and to those who
appreciate useful objects with a specific design
orientation. I still have much to learn, and that's
pleasing since what is life for anyway?

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