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About Wil Bouthoorn Wil Bouthoorn (1916 - 2004) was educated at the academy of fine arts in The Hague. Initially his work is figurative, the follow-up knows many developments in abstract sense. Constructions and stacks of forms arise, in and through each other of figurative and non-figurative. After 1980 the figurative details disappear. Yet the work remains true to its classical origin. Man, as a given, remains present in the work. Bouthoorn never painted according to the illusion of the day and never joined a movement. Steadily and sometimes unnoticed for years, he worked in his studio for more than 60 years on an oeuvre that has acquired its own place in modern art.
Bouthoorn has exhibited extensively, including in: Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven (1961), The Hague Municipal Museum (1963-1965), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1992), Singer Museum in Laren (1997) Wil Bouthoorn has received many awards: Jacob Maris Prize (1954, 1964), Jacob Hartog Prize (1957, 1999), Ouborgh Prize from the municipality of The Hague (1992)