Willem Bastiaan Tholen - Studie van een meisje - Sold

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860-1931) grew up in an artistic environment. His father is a painter and art dealer. Tholen goes to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where he is taught by August Allebé, among others. Nature is an important source of inspiration for him. Tholen paints landscapes, town and village views and especially many water views with boats. He feels at home on the water of Giethoorn, the Zuiderzee and the South Holland lakes; he finds peace and themes for his work there. He is good friends with most of the artists of the Hague School and even considers Jacob Maris to be his most important teacher. Nevertheless, Tholen itself is not considered to belong to the Hague School. He is particularly distinguished by his clear use of color. He is at his best in depicting atmosphere. Willem Bastiaan Tholen is a wanderlust artist. He often moves and lives in Gouda, Amsterdam, Brussels, Delft and Kampen, among other places. Eventually he and his wife settle in The Hague, where they live in the so-called Kanaalvilla, a stone's throw from Scheveningen. He has a studio in the back of the garden of this detached house. Tholen's work is represented in the collections of, among others, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.