Books Zeepijn | Role Painter Name Charlotte Mutsaers | |
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Occupation Painter, teacher, essayist, novelist Nominations Golden Owl - Audience Award, Golden Book-Owl - Literature Prize | ||
Artist talk with Charlotte Mutsaers and Dave de Leeuw on Saturday 25th November 2018
Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers ( [ʃɑrˈlɔtə jaːˈkoːbaː maːˈriaː ˈmɵtsaːrs]; born 2 November 1942) is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist. She won the Constantijn Huygens Prize (2000) and the P. C. Hooft Award (2010) for her literary oeuvre.
Contents
- Artist talk with Charlotte Mutsaers and Dave de Leeuw on Saturday 25th November 2018
- Schrijfster Charlotte Mutsaers over haar interview in Volkskrant
- Biography
- Awards
- Secondary literature
- References
Schrijfster Charlotte Mutsaers over haar interview in Volkskrant
Biography
Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers was born on 2 November 1942 in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of the art historian Barend Mutsaers who worked at Utrecht University. She attended a gymnasium and studied Dutch in Amsterdam.
Subsequently, she became a teacher at an institute of higher vocational education. In the evenings she studied painting and printmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. After her graduation she became a teacher at that institution. She remained an art teacher for over ten years.
As an artist she makes paintings, she has designed stamps, illustrated cultural magazines (Vrij Nederland) and designed book covers.
She had expositions of her paintings at Galerie Clement (Amsterdam), in the Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), the Museum of Modern Art (Arnhem), de Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam) and the Museum de Beyerd (Breda).
She started writing when she was about 40 years old. On 2 April 2010 Dutch television broadcast a documentary De wereld van Charlotte Mutsaers (The World of Charlotte Mutsaers), directed by Suzanne Raes. In May 2010 Charlotte Mutsaers received the P.C. Hooft Award.
Mutsaers has been married to the Dutch specialist Jan Fontijn. They have no children. They live alternately in Amsterdam, Oostende and France.
As a candidate politician she was on the list of the Party for Animals at the occasion of the Dutch elections for the House of Representatives in 2006.