Mark Kolthoffartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsmanAmsterdam 1901-1993 Laren (N.H.)

As a student at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam (1924-1929), Mark Kolthoff became acquainted with French Cubism during a visit to Paris, which would subsequently have a major influence on his work. At least until 1945, he continued to use the cubist analysis of reality in a very personal way. This resulted, among other things, in a series of watercolour still lifes that he painted between 1940 and 1945. After that, his work became geometrically abstract, and he was part of Vrij Beelden with Willy Boers, Anton Rooskens and Eugène Brands, among others. In those years he also regularly exhibited in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. When Willy Boers founded the Creatie group in the early 1950s, Kolthof joined it. He was a very versatile artist, who also made a name for himself as a cinematographer.