Thijs Buit - Large self-printed linocut "New Landscape" pencil signed - Sold

• THIJS BUIT, PAINTER
• by Tiem van Dalfsen

The painter Thijs Buit was born in 1934 as the son of the municipal receiver in Hattem in an environment that was not particularly focused on 'artistic development'. In 1944, the Buit family followed professor Klaas Schilder into the Liberation from the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. In the circles around the young Thijs Buit, art was considered 'worldly' and there was therefore little incentive to fulfil his dream and passion: to become a painter. And then the young Buit also went on to study at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1957 to 1962. Father Buit must have been a generous man; although he had no affinity with any art whatsoever and did not appreciate his son's painting, he did help make his studies at the Rijksacademie possible. It is quite possible that he had to defend and justify the profession and studies of his son Thijs on a regular basis in his own circle.
In 2019, much has changed; for example, Thijs Buit moved with his family from the IJssel of Hattem to the Vecht of Hardenberg in 1974. Also, art expressions and especially abstraction in art expressions are now much less dismissed in the (church) circles around Thijs Buit as worldly. What has not changed is that Thijs Buit still feels connected to the same church community with conviction and dedication and he also still paints. And at the age of 85, he still practices that craft every working day with passionate dedication and at a high level.