The Artistic Journey of Toos van Holstein
Toos van Holstein (1949) studied art and art history at the Academy in Tilburg, where she received her diploma in 1978. She taught aesthetics from 1970 to 1990. In 1983, she had her first exhibition of oil paintings. Since then, she has regularly exhibited her oil paintings, watercolors, stone lithographs, and bronze artworks in The Netherlands and other countries at a number of well-known galleries and art fairs. Since 2003, when the election of the Dutch Artist of the Year started, Toos van Holstein has always been among the 25 most popular artists of the country together with already world-famous artists like Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra, Claudy Jongstra, Karel Appel, and Corneille. In 2016, she was chosen as the official Dutch Brilliant Artist of the Year.
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