Wim ten Broek - large 1943 - oil portrait - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - signed - Sold

• Wim ten Broek (Amsterdam, January 2, 1905 - Hoorn, December 28, 1993) was a Dutch graphic artist, watercolorist, glass artist and (wall) painter.

Life and work
Wim ten Broek was a versatile artist who trained at the Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten in Amsterdam at a young age (1920-1923). Between 1932 and 1937 he studied, together with Johan Haanstra, at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam. There he was a student of HA van der Wal.
He started his working life in 1920 at the Plateelbakkerij de Distel in Amsterdam. From 1923 he got a job as a graphic artist and retoucher at the Union Chemical Graphic Art Institute.
Already in the 1930s before the Second World War, Wim ten Broek made the famous posters for the Holland-America Line. The influence of AM Cassandre is recognizable in this. Wim ten Broek also worked for the HAL with large surfaces and clean lines; primary colors dominate, accentuated with shadows created by spraying techniques. He also made graphic work for, among others, the World Exhibition in New York, for Werkspoor and the Hoogovens. He also drew comics for Het Parool. He also worked on location, for example in Veere.[1]
In 1940 he came to Goor, where his clients included the directors of Eternit, the Twentse Stoomblelekerij and the Twentse Katoendrukkerij. He also forged stamps and identity cards during the war. On December 12, 1945, Wim ten Broek was with Folkert Haanstra Sr. in his studio on the Iependijk in Goor, one of the founders of De Nieuwe Groep ('the moderns' in the east of the country). The founders were the three Haanstra's, Riemko Holtrop, Ben Akkerman, ten Broek himself, Bas Kleingeld and Jan Broeze. Folkert Haanstra was chairman, Wim ten Broek secretary. The Nieuwe Groep played a role in the breakthrough of modern art in Twente.
Wim ten Broek lived and worked in Goor for more than twenty years. In the old town hall of Goor you can find, among other things, a huge stained glass window and a sgraffito by Ten Broek has been cemented into a wall of the former Twentse Stoomblelekerij. The historic sgraffito in the wall of the former Gijmink school was lifted out of the wall in 2012 and moved to the Het Kukelnest petting zoo.
In 1967 Wim ten Broek moved to Ommen with his wife. As he grew older, his eyesight deteriorated and as a result he painted less and less.
Wim ten Broek died in 1993 in Hoorn (North Holland).