Ton Van Os

Born in Rotterdam ( Netherlands) in 1941, Ton van Os holds a Master Degree in Visual Arts
from the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts.
Since 1962 he is working as an independent painter and a graphic artist.
His works has evolved from realism to a conceptual, lyrical non-objective style.
They have been internationally exhibited in various museums and galleries, in solo and group shows.

During the last thirteen years of the past century Ton van Os has created, at other things, series of works dedicated to the painter Paolo Uccello and the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

The last ten years his source of inspiration is both the music and the writings about
music and visual arts of the American composer Morton Feldman.
In these ten years he has made more than eighty mostly large paintings in black and white, in
bright colors,, in glittering silver and in sparkling gold.
Paintings of space and sourceless, invented light with shifting structures and patterns in which, as the Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara wrote in his review MorTon,
paradoxical themes are discussed as dynamic stasis, chaotic order,
unpredictable repetition, intuitive austerity and ringing silence.

Born in Rotterdam ( Netherlands) in 1941, Ton van Os holds a Master Degree in Visual Arts
From the Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts.
1962 'Threshold' Prize - municipaltity of Rotterdam.
1964 Honorable Mention - Salon of the Meuse, Schiedam
1966 Second Prize Mostra Internationale di Bianco e Nero, Lugano Switserland.
1967 travel Grant of the Ministery of Education, Arts and Sciences, The HAgue.
1969 First Prize Mostra Biennale Intenationale della Grafica, Florence Italy.
1974 Hendrik Chabot Prize - carnation Fund Rotterdam.
1976 Grant of the Ministery for culture, Recreation and Social Work, The Hague.
1988 Grant of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam.
1989-1999 teacher at the Academy for Visual Arts, Arnhem.
1994 and 2001 Grant of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam.,