- Ton Schulten
Ton Schulten is a Dutch painter who mainly paints landscapes using bright blocks of colour.
He was born on
25 April 1938 inOotmarsum in theNetherlands , one of six baker's children. He graduated from theEnschede Academy for Art and Industry in 1962 as agraphic designer and worked in advertising for many years, later setting up agencies such as S & O and Createam. In 1989 he left advertising to become a full-time painter and initially went through phases of painting abstractgeometrical forms and gardens of colourful flowers. In 1991 he suffered a serious car accident onTenerife , in which a friend was killed and he and his wife Ank Lammerink were put into acoma . After the accident his style changed and he began painting landscapes of theTwente area using initiallyprimary colours and later also pastel shades. Ootmarsum houses Schulten's own gallery and a Ton Schulten museum, which opened in 1997. His work has great commercial success, but is critically considered to be lightweight. He knighted a member of theOrder of Orange-Nassau in 2002. In 2004 the German art critic Harmut Rau named his style of painting "Concensism ". In 2005 Schulten successfully sued an amateur-painter for making works in his style.Exhibitions
* Museum of Art History,
Florence
* Kunsthistorische Museum,Magdeburg
* ,Münster
* Lowe Gallery,Atlanta ,Santa Monica
* Kunsthaus Bocholt
* Museum Artists House,Jerusalem
* Houses of Parliament,The Hague References
* [http://www.tonschulten.nl/ Official Website]
*Ton Schulten 2005 Calendar, teNeues, ISBN 3-8327-0647-X
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