Charley Toorop: Een schildersleven
Wessel Krul
Boom, 2026
€39,90
Dutch artist Charley Toorop (1891-1955) is one of the most striking and impressive artists of the first half of the twentieth century. She poured her heart and soul into her paintings and combined her work with an equally turbulent private life. Toorop was the mother of three children, had many passionate affairs, and was friends with key figures from art and literature of the interwar period.
Charley Toorop’s paintings are radically personal. Marked by childhood traumas, she sought her truth in paint. Her paintings are not realistic representations, but dreams and visions: images full of emotional charge, unusual intensity, and unvarnished sharpness of observation.
Charley Toorop. A Painter’s Life is a monument to a woman who painted with her entire being. The artist emerges as the strong, independent woman she loved to show the world, but it also becomes clear how much doubt, confusion, and self-torture lurked beneath this. This struggle marked both her life and her work. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789024473793
