Theodoor (Theo) van der Horst (

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, 18 July 1921 - Arnhem, 9 October 2003), was a

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painter, sculptor, graphic artist and glass artist.Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
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/ref> Van der Horst painted people, animals and

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in an

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style. Besides

oil paintings Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest ...

he made

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drawing Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more mod ...

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sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

s and stained glass. He exhibited until the seventies in galleries and museums, but then chose to live as a hermit. He died in October 2003 at the age of 82 in Arnhem.

Exhibitions (selection)

*1954 - Gemeentemuseum Arnhem - retrospective-exhibitionKunstmakelaardij Metzemakers (art brokerage Metzemakers)
/ref> * 1962 - The Arnhem Gallery, Croydon (GB) - 6 Arnhem Painters (Wim Gerritsen,

Klaas Gubbels Klaas Gubbels (born 1934) is a Dutch painter and sculptor with a special love of coffeepots. Biography He was born in Rotterdam and in 1954 he became assistant to Wally Elenbaas and Louis van Roode.De Poëzie van Klaas Gubbels
/ref> * 1963 - Museum Marburg (D) * 1965 - CODA (Apeldoorn), Gemeentelijke Van Reekum Galerij, Apeldoorn - Hedendaagse kunst in Gelderland (Marius van Beek, Klaas Gubbels, Theo van der Horst, Ko Oosterkerk, Fred Sieger, Piet Slegers, Gerrit Veenhuizen, Toon Vijftigschild). * 1967 - Theater München * Stedelijk Museum Schiedam *

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* Group exhibitions at Berlin, Milan en Antwerp

Awards

*1954 - Prijs van de Provincie Zeeland (watersnoodschilderij) *1954 - Arnhemse prijs voor de beeldende kunstKunstmakelaardij Metzemakers (art brokerage Metzemakers)
/ref> *1962 - Quarles van Uffordprijs voor schilderkunst (oeuvre)

Timeline

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References

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