Kees Thijn

Cornelis Jacob Pieter "Kees" Thijn (26 April 1933 – 8 January 2023) was a Dutch radiologist, painter and museum founder.
Biography.
Thijn was born in Emmen in 1933. He worked as a professor of radiology. Thijn was a painter since 1966. In his first works the medical world can still seen. Later he focused on other subjects that play a role in society. He also painted portraits and still lifes. His latest works are more about life. Thijn describes himself as "a symbolic-surrealist painter". He was a member of "Het Drents Schildersgenootschap" (since 1974).
In 2015, at the age of 82 years, he started his owm museum: Museum Thijnhof. Next of works of Thijn himself, there are also many exhibitions. Work by Thijn are also in the collection of , Drents Museum, Het Markiezenhof and University Medical Center Groningen.
Thijn died in Groningen, the city where he lived, on 8 January 2023, at the age of 89.