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Willem Bastiaan Tholen

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860 - 1931) was active/lived in Netherlands, Holland.  Willem Tholen is known for Impressionist landscape painting, drawing, printmaking.

Willem Bastiaan Tholen was a Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker with some connections to members of the Hague School* and later associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism* movement.

When Tholen was five years old, his family moved to Kampen. There he became friendly with the young Jan Voerman, and they entered the Amsterdam Academy together in 1876. Tholen earned his certificate of proficiency within a year, in turn enrolling in the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he attended drawing classes for two years. Having concluded his studies there in 1878 with a secondary school teaching certificate, he went to work as a drawing instructor at the evening secondary school in Gouda.

He spent three months in Brussels in the studio of Paul Gabriel, from whom he received his first real instruction in painting. In the following years Gabriel's advice was of particular importance for Tholen, as they worked together en plein air* for many summers near Kampen and Giethoorn, amon   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2633 characters.]  Artist bio

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