Charley Toorop

Hi we are going to talk about Charley Toorop.
She was born in 1891 in Katwijk
She lived from 1891 till 1955

Charley Toorop had learned everything she knew about painting from her father (Jan Toorop).

Her father had let a house been build for her in Bergen, That later would be her atelier and many musicians and artists gathered there. On 2 July 1926 she started the art association ‘De Brug’. Their goal was to spread the style that was going on around that time (painting realistic) .Some of the best artists were the ones that started the association people like; Johannes Rädecker, Dick Ket, Johan Polet etc.

She had spend a lot of time to learn her son the fine things about painting, because since her son was born he was good at drawing. When her son wasn’t in Holland she helped him too by organizing expositions to show her sons art and sell them to collectors.

Charley Toorop and Johannes radecker were good friends they met each other in 1919 when Johannes radecker rented an old villa to live in with his wife and child. Charley Toorop lived there with her son. They got good friends when in the 30s Johannes radecker had to make a statue of her father (Jan Toorop) because he died and she helped him by giving him pictures of her father. After the statue was build there was an exposition called ‘De 3 Generaties’ meaning the 3 Generations because you could see the work of Jan Toorop, Charley Toorop and her son.

Charley came on the idea to make a painting of her father but it took her years to finish it and when she had to evacuate in 1942 (because of the war) she was still busy with it.

She left her home and went to Blaricum where she stood at Bart van der leck and she took the painting with her (it was very big). She took it with her again in 1944 when she went back to Bergen again where she worked on it and when she finished it she gave it to the city’s museum so they could put it in their basement.

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