Education
He studied art formally in Europe moving to New Mexico in the early 1930s.
He studied art formally in Europe moving to New Mexico in the early 1930s.
He settled in Tucson in 1934. In that year he was painting, printing, building, and hand carving fine furniture and doors. Charles Bolsius"s sophisticated artistic sensibly was influenced by German and Dutch expressionists including: Gestel, Thoroop, Kees van Dongen, and Emil Nolde while embracing the scale and environmental tonality of the American West.
He exhibited his art in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and San Francisco.
Bolsius died in March 1983 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona.
He designed and built numerous modified territorial/pueblo revival buildings in and around Fort Lowell on the edge of Tucson and was a member of many Tucson art organizations.