Biografie
1950 Peter Thijs, Heeze (nbr)
1967 HBS-b St Joriscollege Eindhoven
1967 – 1969 Akademie voor tekenleraar Tilburg
1974 Diploma Akte Tekenen MO-a
1969 – 1971 Reclameontwerper Willem II Sigarenfabriek
1971 – 1974 Akademie ’s Hertogenbosch,
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
Lasmolineries
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2006 'Lotte Grimbel-Dubois' oil on linen 60x40cm
Portrait, landscape, human figure, natural subjects in common. This started around 2000.
• 'Lucas sleeping' oil on canvas 70x150cm
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 expelled 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.
• The big pond 57x110cm oil on board
