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The color, the glow and shine, the shape. The emotion and experience. That is the world of Ton Schulten. Or maybe: the world according to Ton Schulten. Get to know that world. A world full of emotion and enchantment. No one escapes the mysterious power of the impressive work of Ton Schulten, the simple baker's son from Ootmarsum. His work, now known worldwide, enchants the viewer. Shapes, colors and heavenly compositions that offer tranquility. Impressive and sometimes even hypnotic. Emotional and above all so beautiful in composition that no one can escape the powerful and mysterious aura. Ton Schulten's work is warming and of inimitable beauty.
Ton Schulten (Ootmarsum, 1938)
Ton Schulten was born in Ootmarsum as the son of a baker. He grows up in a traditional Catholic middle-class family with six children. Schulten starts training as a priest, but leaves it when he realizes he wants to take a more artistic path. He started working as a window dresser at Vroom & Dreesman and attended evening classes at the Academy of Art and Industry in Enschede, where he graduated cum laude in 1962. In 1961, Schulten joined a leading advertising agency. However, he continues to draw and paint in his scarce spare time. However, it is only when Schulten puts an end to his advertising career that he can really follow his artistic conscience. He's had enough of, as he calls it, "playing manager." It alienates him from the creative process. In addition, Ton and his wife Ank are involved in a serious car accident in 1991. A good friend of the couple dies. It marks a turning point in Ton's life. Through abstract canvases with geometric shapes and large floral paintings, Schulten arrives at the landscape of Twente. The landscape mosaic becomes his signature subject. Schulten has felt attached to the landscape of Twente from an early age. Characteristic for his work are intense colors and wide vertical bands on his canvases. The details in his works are self-contained paintings. Schulten is inspired by the bocage landscape of Twente. Here he not only finds the ideas, but also the peace, the space and the unique light to create tirelessly. Schulten gets up every day at two or three in the morning to work in complete isolation in his studio. His credo is 'I make things happen that cannot be done, but that are terribly interesting in terms of their effect. This creates a constantly new, creative process. 67616701
