Thierry Veltman (born December 16, 1939 in Bussum) is a Dutch

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, sculptor,

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and art

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. He focuses in particular on figures and

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Life and career

Veltman won his first art prize at the age of 12, at an international exhibition of children's drawings in Brazil. In 1958, when he was 19, he exhibited his own interpretations of the

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. He went on to study at the

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in Amsterdam. From the early 1960s Veltman exhibited extensively at art galleries in the Netherlands and sometimes beyond. Veltman uses many drawing and painting techniques, often in mixtures. He is also active in sculpting, ceramics and art research. He is still influenced by spending some of his youth in South America. Since 1966 he lived mostly in Dordrecht, with a short interlude in Amerongen. He taught many students painting and drawing, both in Dordrecht and at Ichthus College in Rotterdam. At Ichthus he founded the department of Art and Communication. Veltman is the author of the art education book "Individuality and drawing" (1978; in Dutch). Thierry Veltman is married to Eelke.

Bibliography

* 1975 - ''Thierry Veltman: schilderijen, tekeningen en etsen'' aintings, drawings and etchings Apeldoorn: Gemeentelijke Van Reekum Galerij (Catalogue) * 1978 - ''Individualiteit en het tekenen'' ndividuality and drawing Zutphen: Thieme ()

References

External links

Personal website

Blog about Thierry Veltman
by Joris Veltman
Virtual exhibition: Thierry Veltman on Return

(paintings and bibliography in Dutch)
Thierry Veltman page
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (includes references in Dutch art history books) {{DEFAULTSORT:Veltman, Thierry 1939 births Living people Art educators Contemporary painters Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch potters Dutch sculptors Dutch male sculptors Dutch ceramists Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni People from Bussum Artists from Dordrecht 20th-century sculptors 20th-century Dutch artists 21st-century ceramists 20th-century Dutch male artists