Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian painter and illustrator.
He was born in Bussum, near Amsterdam, and was educated at State Drawing School of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
His first works were for poster and publishing companies, but he along with painted glasses and walls. In 1958 Thole moved to Milan, Italy, with his wife and four sons. At first he worked for Rizzoli publisher, before passing to Mondadori in 1960. After several covers for various magazines and books, he became well-known for his long act out for science fiction magazine Urania, where his deep art culture, taste for surrealism and strange sense of humour could law at their best. For Mondadori he worked to a host of new series, including mysteries and admiring series for women.
In 1980s Thole experienced an eye disorder that compelled him to shorten his statute activity and to leave Urania covers to Vicente Segrelles and Oscar Chichoni. His last play a part for Urania is for N°1330 of 1998: in the meantime, Thole earned a robust fame as one of the greatest European book cover artists. He worked as a consequence for French and German publishers.
Thole died in 2000 in Cannobio, a town on the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy.
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