12 Facts About Willem Hofhuizen

Willem Hofhuizen was a Dutch Expressionist painter.

Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Hofhuizen was born in Amsterdam on 27 July 1915 but a few years later his parents moved to Roermond, where Willem spent his childhood at the Kapellerlaan.

Willem Hofhuizen's fellow students at the Academy included Jaap Min, Karel Appel, Corneille and many others who would later rise to fame, as well as Jos Hagemeijer, whom he would later marry and who was a talented artist in her own right.

Willem Hofhuizen had his second workshop in Maastricht at the Pieterstraat in the old mill above the workshop of Hubert Felix, a glazier.

Willem Hofhuizen did his laundry for him and brought him food.

Willem Hofhuizen spent the last ten years of his life with his bosom friend, the painter Petran Vermeulen, and his dear friend Marianne Bakels.

Willem Hofhuizen went on study trips to Egypt, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France, where he stayed in Paris for about a year.

Willem Hofhuizen's paintings reflect his inner world, in which man plays a dominant role.

Willem Hofhuizen created the sculptures Joy of Life and Olterdissen's Work at the Grote Looiersstraat in Maastricht.

Willem Hofhuizen's works comprise oil paintings, gouaches, temperas, drawings, book illustrations, glass windows for churches in Utrecht and Brabant, frescos, sgraffitos, portraits and sculptures.

Willem Hofhuizen was an art critic for a regional newspaper and for fifteen years he taught "cultural life" at the teachers training college of Veghel.

Willem Hofhuizen's works have been exhibited in Maastricht, Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Bonn, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Tokyo, among others.