Geerten Ten Bosch

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In this Dutch name, the surname is Ten Bosch, not Bosch.

Geerten Ten Bosch
Born
Geerten Maria Ten Bosch

(1959-04-21) 21 April 1959 (age 62)
Dordrecht
NationalityDutch
Known forIllustration

Geerten Maria Ten Bosch (born 21 April 1959, Dordrecht)[1][2][3] is a Dutch graphic designer and illustrator.

Early life[]

Ten Bosch was born in 1959 as one of five children of Lou Ten Bosch and Ank Stumpel.[3]

Between 1980 and 1984 she studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague but she did not complete her studies.[1][4] One of her teachers was .[1]

Illustrator[]

In 1985, she started children's magazine St. Kitts van de Bovenwindse with , named after Saint Kitts island.[1] The initial financing for St. Kitts van de Bovenwindse was made possible by who made available the remaining money after the end of children's magazine .[5] Further financing was made possible by the .[5] The magazine only lasted a year but this marked the beginning of her collaborative efforts with Linders, Harriët van Reek and Anne Vegter.[1][4]

In 1989, she illustrated the children's book De dame en de neushoorn, written by Anne Vegter, for which they both won the Woutertje Pieterse Prijs in 1990.[2][1] The main characters in this book were first introduced in the children's magazine St. Kitts van de Bovenwindse.[1] Ten Bosch received the Vlag en Wimpel award for her illustrations in Verse bekken! which is also written by Anne Vegter.[1] Ten Bosch illustrated Vegter's book Harries hoofdingang (1999) as well as Sprookjes van de planeet aarde (2006), the latter in collaboration with her sister Judith Ten Bosch.[6][7] Both sisters participated in the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava in 2007 to exhibit their illustrations in this book.[8]

Between 1994 and 1996, she illustrated stories written by Toon Tellegen which were published every other week in NRC Handelsblad.[1] These stories were published in the book De verjaardag van alle anderen in 1998.[1] In 1996, she received the Gouden Penseel award for her illustrations in De verjaardag van de eekhoorn (1995), written by Toon Tellegen.[9][10]

In 1995, she illustrated the book Het huis van Marie written by Clara Linders.[1] In 2018, Ten Bosch and Harriët van Reek presented their picture book Ei! Ei! De wonderlijke reis van twee eieren en een poppenkast on the occasion of Easter 2018.[11]

Artist[]

With Harriët van Reek she formed artist collective Banketje and they went on to create various works of art.[12] Some of these art works were purchased by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Nordic Watercolour Museum.[12]

In 2001, she created an art work together with artist for the library in Maassluis.[13]

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k "Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur (1982 - 2014)" (in Dutch). dbnl.org. June 2001. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Woutertje Pieterse Prijs 1990" (in Dutch). woutertjepieterseprijs.nl. Archived from the original on 16 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "LUDOVICUS ROELANDUS MARIE TEN BOSCH - 21-05-1923 (ROTTERDAM - KRALINGEN) - 05-01-2018 (WARNSVELD)" (in Dutch). regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Bosman, Andrea (3 October 1996). "Geerten ten Bosch is niet snel tevreden over haar eigen werk" (in Dutch). trouw.nl. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Een levenslange liefde voor het literaire jeugdtijdschrift - In Memoriam Ilona Maria Fennema-von Zboray (1914-2001)" (in Dutch). dbnl.org, Peter van den Hoven. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Sprookjes van de planeet aarde [Book, 2006] (WorldCat.org)". WorldCat. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Harries hoofdingang [Book, 1999] (WorldCat.org)". WorldCat. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Judith Ten Bosch" (in Dutch). tnstudio.nl. Archived from the original on 17 February 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Geerten Ten Bosch op jeugdliteratuur.org" (in Dutch). jeugdliteratuur.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "Mijn handtekening op een arm; Gesprek met Guus Middag, winnaar van de Gouden Griffel" (in Dutch). NRC.nl. 7 June 1996. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Boekpresentatie 'Ei! Ei!' in Villa Augustus". In de buurt (in Dutch). 27 March 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b "banketje.nl - News" (in Dutch). banketje.nl. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  13. ^ van Capelleveen, Ruud. "Moritz Ebinger" (in Dutch). absofacts2.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

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