Pieter Willem Bulthuis, a son of Hindrik Jan Bulthuis and Pieternella Verkaaik. you can find them in tree number 9, Born in Gouda, Zuid-Holland at 21-12-1898 and passed away on 31-12-1988 in Middelburg, Zeeland, actualy painter, and also in our next
Biography
Pieter Willem Bulthuis was a student at the Academy in The Hague. He then worked as an art teacher from 1919 until his retirement in 1963. He was successively a drawing teacher in The Hague, at the HBS in Zierikzee and from 1946 to 1963 at the HBS in Middelburg. He lived in Kijkduin aan Zee from 1924, but was forced to leave his home by the German authorities in 1942 because it became part of the Atlantic Wall. He moved with his family to the Blokweg in Zierikzee. That house had to be abandoned in 1954 during the Disaster because the water reached the gutter. Once back after his evacuation, he started drawing the flooded land. However, he moved to Middelburg shortly afterwards because he could no longer cope in the gloomy environment of Schouwen-Duiveland, which had recently been regained from the sea.
Oeuvre
Pieter Willem Bulthuis (1898-1988). Achter de Blokweg in Zierikzee, 1953, KZGW, ZI III-1293.
His paintings and drawings in traditional style include still lifes, flower arrangements, landscapes and cityscapes from the Netherlands, the Dolomites, Mallorca, Ibiza, etc. Especially worth mentioning are the gouaches of the flooded Schouwen-Duiveland from 1953. Eleven of these 'disaster' gouaches were made in Purchased in 1985 by the Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences for the Zelandia Illustrata. Bulthuis also made wood engravings, woodcuts and sculptures and exhibited numerous times in Zeeland. Bulthuis was a member of the Hague Art Circle, Arti et Industriae and the Zeeland Art Circle.
Text from the Encyclopedia of Zeeland 1982-1984
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