Cor Melchers

Cor Melchers (1954 – 15 September 2015) was a Dutch painter.

Cor Melchers
Melchers in his garden in front of his atelier in Huissen
Born1954 (1954)
Huissen
Died15 September 2015(2015-09-15) (aged 60–61)
OccupationDutch painter

Life
Melchers painting

Melchers was born and grew up in Huissen. He was a teacher at the primary school De Laarakker in Arnhem. He started painting in 2003 and became more populair with his naive expressionist work. He won the Mieke Bles Art Prize with its romantic landscapes, impressions of villages, towns and Betuwse orchards in 2008.[1] He exhibited, in the Netherlands (including Hotel Pulitzer, Amsterdam) and Italy. His atalier was located where he lived, in Huissen. In 2014 his biography was published "Cor Melchers, schilder van kleurende eenvoud" (translated: Cor Melchers, painter of coloring simplicity.)[2][3]

Melchers was engaged in promoting art. He gave workshops, collaborated on a children's book, and established Huissen Kunst in de Etalage and art platform Kunstplatform Mea Vota.

On September 15, 2015 Melchers died from legionnaires' disease at the age of 61.[4]

gollark: True, true, if you already have tons of heat then it makes sense.
gollark: Doesn't desalination run on something something reverse osmosis and not boiling nowadays?
gollark: Inevitably!
gollark: That probably doesn't push it up to the efficiency of just shining light on them directly, but it maybe makes it less bad.
gollark: I read somewhere that plants work more efficiently if you can tightly control the frequency of light you feed to them, and the duty cycle and stuff.

References
  1. "Cor Melchers wint De Mieke Bles Kunstprijs 2008 - De Nieuwe Krant - dé Weekkrant". deweekkrant.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  2. "Kunstenaar Cor Melchers uit Huissen overlijdt aan legionellabacterie". gelderlander.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  3. "Over mij - Cor Melchers Schilderkunst". cormelchers.nl. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  4. Over Cor

Further reading
  • Cor Melchers, schilder van kleurende eenvoud 2008


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.