Kees Thijn

Kees Thijn
Born
Cornelis Jacob Pieter Thijn

(1933-04-26)26 April 1933
Emmen, Netherlands
Died8 January 2023(2023-01-08) (aged 89)
Groningen, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Occupation(s)radiologist, painter and museum founder

Cornelis Jacob Pieter "Kees" Thijn (26 April 1933 – 8 January 2023) was a Dutch radiologist, painter and museum founder.

Biography

Thijn was born in Emmen in 1933. He worked as a professor of radiology. Thijn was a painter since 1966. In his first works the medical world can still seen. Later he focused on other subjects that play a role in society. He also painted portraits and still lifes. His latest works are more about life. Thijn describes himself as "a symbolic-surrealist painter". He was a member of "Het Drents Schildersgenootschap" (since 1974).

In 2015, at the age of 82 years, he started his owm museum: Museum Thijnhof. Next of works of Thijn himself, there are also many exhibitions. Work by Thijn are also in the collection of Stedelijk Museum Zwolle [nl], Drents Museum, Het Markiezenhof and University Medical Center Groningen.

Thijn died in Groningen, the city where he lived, on 8 January 2023, at the age of 89.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Kees Thijn, oprichter Museum Thijnhof in Coevorden, overleden (89)". RTV Drenthe (in Dutch). 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Kees Thijn (89) uit Groningen overleden. Naast radioloog en kunstschilder was hij grondlegger van Museum Thijnhof in Coevorden". Dagblad van het Noorden (in Dutch). 9 January 2023. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Kees Thijn". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Kunstenaar (82) wil expositie: nieuw museum in Coevorden". RTV Drenthe (in Dutch). 28 June 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2023.

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