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Moniek Toebosch
Dutch actress, artist and musician (1948–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monique Pauline Maria Josephine Toebosch, also known by the pseudonym Paul Rubens, (19 August 1948 – 24 November 2012) was a Dutch actress, artist and musician. She began her performing career in 1969 and produced improvised music. Toebosch collaborated with Michel Waisvisz in multiple theatre productions and did solo productions before moving into the visual arts scene as an installation artist. She was a lecturer at the audiovisual department of Amsterdam's Gerrit Rietveld Academie; at ArtEZ University of Arts during the 1996–97 academic year; at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 1996 to 2000 and was director of the post-academic course DasArts (later the Master of Theatre of the Amsterdam University of the Arts from 2004 to 2007. She was a recipient of the Sandberg Prize and the Arti Medal of Arti et Amicitiae.
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![]() Moniek Toebosch during her final performance: Erasing and Recovering on a Saturday Afternoon in June 2011. | |
Born | Monique Pauline Maria Josephine Toebosch (1948-08-19)19 August 1948 Breda, Netherlands |
Died | 24 November 2012(2012-11-24) (aged 64) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Other names | Paul Rubens |
Alma mater | Brabant Conservatory AKV St. Joost |
Occupation(s) | Actress Artist Musician |
Years active | 1967–2011 |
Spouses | Cornelis Houwer
(m. 1970; div. 1976)Rudolf Johannes Luijters
(m. 1999; div. 2004) |
Awards | Sandberg Prize Arti Medal of Arti et Amicitiae |