Gezienus ten Doesschate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gezienus ten Doesschate

Dutch painter

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1885

Place of Birth: Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1965

Profession: historian, painter, ophthalmologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Gezienus (or Gesinus) ten Doesschate (11 August 1885, Zwolle – 9 March 1965, Utrecht) was a Dutch ophthalmologist, amateur painter and historian.He was active as an amateur painter in Utrecht under the pseudonym Thomas Denier.
He had good contacts with the cultural elite of Utrecht around the First World War and was good friends with the painters Janus de Winter and Erich Wichman.
In 1916 he was briefly a member of de Anderen, a Dutch artists' group that included Theo van Doesburg, but dropped out in support of de Winter, another artists group. At the end of his life he contributed to a number of medical-historical books concerning the University of Utrecht.His son was Jurriaan ten Doesschate (1912–1977), ophthalmologist and medical scientist