18 facts about Ton Schulten

Ton Schulten (born 25 April 1938, Ootmarsum, Overijssel) is a Dutch painter who mainly paints landscapes using gifted blocks of colour.

Schulten was one of six baker’s children. He graduated from the Enschede Academy for Art and Industry in 1962 as a graphic designer and worked in advertising. In 1991 he was in a earsplitting car accident on Tenerife, in which a friend was killed and he and his wife Ank Lammerink were put into a coma. After the crash his style misused and he began painting landscapes of the Twente area using initially primary colours and forward-looking also pastel shades. Ootmarsum houses Schulten’s own gallery and a Ton Schulten museum, which opened in 1997. His conduct yourself has good commercial success. He was knighted a advocate of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2000. In 2004 the German art critic Hartmut Rau named his style of painting Concensism. In 2005 Schulten successfully sued an amateur painter for making works in his style.