1950 Peter Thijs, geboren te Heeze (nbr)
1967 middelbaar onderwijs hbs-b
1967 – 1969 Akademie voor tekenleraar Tilburg.
1974 Diploma akte tekenen mo-a
1969 – 1971 Werkzaam als reclameontwerper
1971 – 1974 Akademie ’s Hertogenbosch, afdeling
Vrije Grafiek
1976 en 1977 Koninklijke Subsidie voor Schilderkunst
1977 en 1979 Europaprijs voor schilderkunst
Oostende,
gouden en zilveren medailles
1979 Willink van Collenprijs
1974 – 1982 Diverse tentoonstellingen, waaronder 3
thematentoonstellingen Ministerie Cultuur CRM
solotentoonstellingen: TU Eindhoven, Kultureel
Centrum Tilburg, ’t Meyhuis Helmond, Kunstzaal Belamy
Vlissingen, de Witte Voet Amsterdam en meer
1982 – 1987 Docent aan creatief centrum Zouavenlaan
Tilburg
Cursussen, workshops schilderen, grafische
vormgeving
1982 – 1987 Docent Akademie Eindhoven, tekenen en
grafiek
1987 Docent Akademie Industriële Vormgeving/Design
Academy Eindhoven
Werkzaam als zelfstandig grafisch ontwerper
1998 – 1999 Docent Akademie Beeldende Vorming
Tilburg
grafische vormgeving, tekenen, computerbegeleiding
2000 – 2001 Docent Akademie Genk België
Born in Heeze in 1950, Peter Thijs grew up in
the suburbs of Eindhoven, his parents having
moved there shortly before his first year. His
father working as a police agent. As a child,
teachers were impressed by the adult manner of
drawing, which once was called a fraud. In the
footprints of van Gogh, who lived nearby in
Nuenen in the midth of the 19th century, he
became focused on painting and drawing after
nature.
He began his art education in Tilburg. In fact
entered a school for drawing and art teacher, of
which he was removed, due to conflicts, typical
of those days in 1968. So, at the age of 19, he
started working as a commercial designer at
Willem II Cigars company. Still wanting for an art
education, he entered the Academy of art in
’s Hertogenbosch. Because the so called
‘academic tendency’ in his work, he was sent
away in 1974. Until the late 70’s, natural art was
not considered a legitimate genre.
Conceptualism was ruling untill a revival of new
expressionism came around. As the resume does show, Peter Thijs continued painting and graphic, as an artist, designer and
teacher. Since 1983 PeterThijs is teaching drawing and graphics at the Academy for Industrial Design, nowadays the highly touted
Design Academy Eindhoven.
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