Education
Toos van Holstein studied art and art history at the Academy of Arts in the town of Tilburg (the Netherlands).
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Career
From 1970-1990 she was a teacher in art In 1983 she had her first exhibition with oil paintings. Several times she has been nominated for the annual election of the Dutch Artist of the Year.
She is one of the better known women artists in the country.
Toos lives and works in Middelburg, capital town of the province of Zeeland (Sealand), in an old warehouse from the year 1738. by Toos van Holstein show a recognizable world but do not prescribe what has to be seen by the viewer. On a regular base Toos van Holstein shows her work in galleries in her own country but also in Belgium, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. She had special shows in - the museum Het Petershuis (Gennep, the Netherlands) with the motto “Art for living, living for the art” - the medieval church of Saint Martin in Franeker (the Netherlands) with the motto “Men on its way”, based on the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven (the Divine Comedy) - and the museum of the art village of Saint Paul de Vence in France.
The exhibition of “Men on its way” was also shown in the old Dutch Church in the City of London.
