Willem van genk biography of rory gilmore

Dutch painter

Willem van Genk (April 2, 1927 – May 12, 2005) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist, celebrated as one of the leading masters of Outsider Art.

Throughout his life he lived with severe mental distress, experiencing symptoms related to autism and schizophrenia.^[1] On account of his passion for trains, buses, and train stations, he called himself the "King of Stations".^[2]

Van Genk's panoramic cityscapes and fragmented collages express his feelings about modern authority, feelings which were shaped by an abusive father who, in addition to administering his own beatings, left him exposed to a traumatic experience at the hands of the Gestapo during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War.^[3]

Van Genk's art has been widely exhibited in Europe, where it is also in many museum collections, including those of the Stedelijk Museum, the Dr.

Guislain Museum in Ghent, the Collection de l’Art Brut in La