Charley Toorop

Charley Toorop ( born March 24, 1891 in Katwijk, † November 6, 1955 in Bergen, North Holland ), daughter of the painter Jan Toorop, was an important painter and lithographer from the Netherlands.

The self-taught artist remained 1919-1921 in Paris in 1922 and moved to Bergen (North Holland). There she worked in the style of the Bergen School. After 1928 her complexion was brighter with more red colors.

From 1937 to show their work a greater strength and expression. Often the figures are distorted. Your most important work from this period, the three generations is shown in the Rotterdam Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

Of her many lithographs were used as book illustrations and calendar. One of them, a self-portrait, even reached a circulation of about one million copies. In her later works, she worked primarily for the Catholic Church.

Charley Toorop was temporarily married to the philosopher Hendrik Fernhout. From the marriage of the painter Edgar Fernhout (1912-1974), filmmaker John Fernhout and a daughter were born.

• Dutch Painter
• Born 1891
• Died in 1955
• Woman