Carel Willink - Wikipedia
He was the eldest son of the mechanic Jan Willink and
Wilhelmina Altes. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his
son to paint.
After briefly studying medicine, in 1918-19 Willink studied architecture
at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft. 
Afterwards he left for Germany,
where he failed to get into the academy in Düsseldorf. He later studied
for a short time at the Staatliche Hochschule in Berlin.
Willink's earliest paintings were in an expressionist manner, although
he also painted abstract works at the time that he exhibited with the
November group in 1923. By 1924 he had adopted a figurative style
influenced by Picasso's neoclassical paintings of the early 1920s, and
especially by Léger. Later in the decade, Willink developed a magic
realist style related to the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de
Chirico.
From 1935 until his death Willink lived in Amsterdam. His realistically
rendered paintings frequently depict slightly disquieting scenes taking
place in front of imposing buildings. He also painted many portraits.
Willink married four times.
His first marriage in 1927 with Mies van der
Meulen (1900-1988) dissolved after a year, but his second in 1930 with
Wilma Jeuken (1905-1960) lasted until her death of a brain tumor. 
In
1962 he started a relationship with the 38-year younger Mathilde de
Doelder, whom he married in 1969. Their eccentric relationship made them
a mainstay in the Dutch gossip columns of the time.
In 1975 Willink
started an affair with the 44-year younger sculptor Sylvia Quiël [nl].
In 1977 he divorced De Doelder, who either committed suicide or was
murdered 4 months later.
The same year he married Quiël.
Willink died, at the age of 83, in Amsterdam on 19 October 1983. A small
park in Amsterdam, near the Rijksmuseum, is named in his honour.
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